Kitchen cabinets and open shelves: a multicultural series of "kitchen portraits" by Erik Klein Wolterink

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

Kitchen - a favorite place for all household members. It is in the kitchens that everyone gathers at the same table, where culinary masterpieces are born and intimate conversations are held over a cup of evening tea. Photographer Erik Klein Wolterink came to the conclusion that the kitchen can tell much more about a person than any other room. In an unusual photo project, the resourceful Dutchman elicited secrets from all kinds of cabinets and shelves.

Kitchens in photo project "Keukens" they look rather strange - they frankly demonstrate everything that is hidden behind the furniture doors. The photographer managed to achieve this effect when he separately captured the contents of all the nooks and crannies of kitchen furniture, and then - combined the images into a single picture. So we got such kitchens "wide open", the author of the photo project himself calls a series of his funny pictures "Kitchen portraits".

Erik Klein Wolterink looked into the kitchens of many Amsterdam families, the most interesting were, of course, those houses where representatives of other cultures live. We have already told our readers that the kitchen is a conceptual portrait of the hostess, talking about the unusual project of the French agency for microarchitecture. The same idea was continued in his photo project by the Dutch master Erik Klein Wolterink. The contents of the refrigerators more than gave away all the national secrets: goat cheese is the Turkish mistress, and palm oil is the African roots of the homemaker. Students 'girls' kitchens look immaculately tidy, but homes with small children smell nicely of cardamom and other spices.

“Kitchen is a metaphor for a multicultural world,” says Erik Klein Wolterink. Indeed, it is most interesting to get to know any culture to taste, getting acquainted with the national cuisine. And even when people get used to the taste peculiarities of foreign countries, the desire to return a piece of their homeland to their home does not leave them. What is the easiest way to do this? Of course, adding spice and piquancy to the already familiar dishes.