Seasons bring new and unusual shapes and forms of produce. Pumpkins, squashes, gords, all have their own charm and look amazing close up. A continuation of Portraits of Produce.
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Portraits of Produce — Pumpkin /
Portrait of a Pumpkin
Every season has a string of amazing item associated with it. No doubt pumpkins are one that comes to mind for many people during the month of October.
Picking up a baking pumpkin from Imperfect Foods, I added onto a long series of photos taking “portraits” of produce. In 2019 I played with a grocery store’s worth of produce and how I would interpret their photography if it were a person—taking its portrait.
More to come but this is a Portrait of a Pumpkin. Perhaps I’ll find some of the ‘weirder’ pumpkins out there and do the whole family.
Part of Portraits of Produce
Series 1 — Portraits of Produce /
Project Kr, begins with Portraits of Produce, the first series of the year.
Inspired by shapes, minimalism, macro, and an affinity toward dramatic, one point lighting, a project of what I expected to be half a dozen or so images just kept growing. In fact, I might continue this with other produce items that I didn’t get to photography (or couldn’t find) like fresh figs, several types of squash, and more.
I hope you return because a black and white version of this series may also appear. I decided this needed to be color in the moment but some of these images look really spectacular in black and white.
A funny take away: lighting an aubergine proved to be much harder with anticipated. The Story of the Aubergine, behind the scenes, on Hexagon on the way.
Series 2 coming January 21, 2019.
