Photographer Caren Alpert wasn’t content with taking pictures of food sitting on a table. So she took her photography to another level and began shooting common foods through an electron microscope.
From that artist:
I’ve made a living over the last decade capturing mostly recognizable images of food. Now I want to show what is there, but what we never actually see: landscapes, patterns and textures that ignite a completely different response from the viewer.
Photographs taken with electron microscopes have seized my interest because of their mystery and simultaneous familiarity. This medium deconstructs, abstracts, and reveals the ordinary in a riveting way. The closer the lens got, the more I saw food – and consumers of food – as part of a larger eco-system.
There’s so much rhetoric in our culture around food: food science, food journalism, food history, and food how-to. It is my hope that these photographs might transform our food obsession into a newfound closeness with what nourishes us.
Pop Tart
Vitamin C
Table Salt
Fortune Cookie
Lifesaver
Oreo
Blueberry
Almond
Kiwi Seed
Coffee Bean
Raw Sugar
Red Licorice
Fried Onion
Passionfruit
Sundried Tomato
Raisin
Pineapple Leaf
Chocolate Cake
Radish
Shrimp Tail
Brussel Sprout
Purple Onion
Celery Leaf
Banana
Cake Sprinkles
