Come closer

During the pandemic, some people instinctively turned to cooking, a means of connecting with food as a warming and reassuring source of life; others instead relied on food delivery, a business that saw a huge increase in profits.
Will the tendency to consume prepared and delivered meals, accelerated by the pandemic, ultimately magnify the distance between us and the food we eat?
We don’t really know much about what we buy, including the list of ingredients or their origin.
If some of the foods we love become extinct, will we have to look at food with different eyes? To adapt to new foods?

The research, almost a nostalgic journey, led me to discover an ironic and sensual aspect of food, a “fantastic pantry” of unexpected beauty beyond what is immediately visible to us.

Come closer is part of Hunger, a series of photographic projects linked by the use of macro lenses to capture common foods. Originating during the isolation of the pandemic, it grew out of my long-standing interest and fascination with food and its complex relationship with humans.

The title was inspired by recent studies of how our brains process visual input from sight. It struck me that our minds can be heavily influenced by our subconscious, rather than accurately processing what is around us.

Macro photography becomes a tool to explore what cannot be seen with the naked eye, such as the transformative and creative attitude of our brain, or the minimal details of what we see every day.