Sharing the journey of Food is Wasted
I’ve been documenting the issue of food waste since 2014. From the outset I wanted to share my journey, rather than build a body of work to show later on, and so I built a dedicated website - Food Is Wasted....
I’ve been documenting the issue of food waste since 2014. From the outset I wanted to share my journey, rather than build a body of work to show later on, and so I built a dedicated website - Food Is Wasted....
Since landing in London 12 years ago, I've lived in many different areas - from the borders of Wimbledon Common all the way to London Fields, and now I'm based in the North, in the borough of Haringey.In all that time I'd never really engaged...
FareShare is a UK-based charity with a logistics network that collects and receives food from supermarkets and manufacturers, that might otherwise have been needlessly wasted. They have 21 Regional Centres, allowing them to reach 1,500 towns and cities, and redistribute food to almost 10,000 different charities...
This is Sophie from Elysia Catering - a social enterprise that buys food that would otherwise go to waste at a reduced rate from artisan producers, and creates delicious breakfasts and canapés. This shot was taken during a shoot for Jellied Eel magazine, who were writing...
Dan, who heads up the Michelin-starred Blue Hill Farm restaurant in New York, decided to host a pop-up restaurant on top of Selfridges in the heart if London. There were many aspects of this venture that made it unique, but it’s raison d’être was to...
In September 2015 I was invited by Professor and photographer Alessandra Capodacqua to give a talk at NYU in Florence, Italy on my work documenting the issue of food waste. ...
This month's image is one of the portraits I have taken of people involved in reducing the amount of edible food needlessly going to waste - a body of work I am entitling Food Waste Warriors, and accompanies a written interview with Saasha....
To celebrate 1000 years of Borough Market, photographers a photographic competition was organised called 'Hungry for Change', with photographers invited to submit images showing food, or how surplus food can be a 'creative solution to alleviate food poverty.' The initiative aimed to fundraise for the charity...
During my exploration of food waste in my Food Is… project, I started documenting the activities of The Gleaning Network – an organisation that mobilises volunteers to visit farms where edible food is being left to rot. The volunteers – gleaners - come from the area...
Since September 2013 I have been exploring a personal project around the topic of food waste. The fact that food is being wasted has become big news recently, with some new statistic in the newspaper almost daily. The same is true of the measures that...