Lara Prendergast Lara Prendergast

The truth about food photography

What seems fresh, clean and wonderfully modern to our eye will look tragic in the future, as this Photographers’ Gallery exhibition demonstrates

issue 02 November 2019

While looking at the photographs of food in this humorous exhibition at the Photographers’ Gallery, I thought of how hopelessly outdated our own snaps will soon look. What seems fresh, clean and wonderfully modern to our eye — an Ottolenghi salad, say, dotted with pomegranate seeds and za’atar — will soon look almost tragic.

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