Video: Hungry Planet - Food Photo Project by Peter Menzel
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
It used to be that food was the main source of spending for most families. Over the past century, the income of the world's population has grown dramatically, and the cost of food has fallen dramatically. This is how much the weekly diet of families from different countries of the world costs, as photographer Peter Menzel tells in his photo project. Hungry Planet.
In order to implement this project of his, Peter Menzel had to travel a lot around the planet Earth, visit twenty-four countries - from the poorest (India, Chad) to the richest (USA, Japan), from the most remote (Bhutan, Greenland) to the most "center" (Great Britain, Luxembourg). He visited all inhabited continents.
As a result, Menzel got a series of thirty photographs depicting the average weekly diet of average families (4-5 people) in their countries: USA, Great Britain, Egypt, Greenland, Germany, Guatemala, Australia, Luxembourg, India, Canada, France, Turkey, Japan, Italy, Chad, Kuwait, Mexico, China, Poland, Ecuador, Mongolia, Bhutan, Mali, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
As a result, it turned out that the family from Chad spends the least on food (1.23 US dollars), the most - the family from Germany (500.07 dollars). The average cost of a weekly food basket in more or less developed countries is $ 250-350.
I must say that recently a creative method has become very common, when a photographer travels to different countries and tries to show the soul of these countries and the soul of the world as a whole through this or that aspect of life. Examples include the projects “In Your Fridge” by Stephanie de Rouge, “A Girl And Her Room” by Rania Matar and now here is "Hungry Planet" by Peter Menzel.
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