The International Festival of Culinary Photography (Festival Photo Culinaire) in Paris is entering its last week-end. It closes on November 14.
Of course they bestowed awards on a chosen few including for the first time in 2010, a food blog prize to Emilie Guelpa for her succulent photos on Griottes…
Beyond the walls of the event where professionals and passionate amateurs discuss the in and outs of the perfect 'soup' snapshot, restaurants, cooking studios and galleries around town are offering photography exhibits for the larger public to enjoy.
Like many other amateurs of literature Dimitri Tolstoi might have at first caught my eye because of his famous last name. What kept my attention was his 'food related' work exhibited as 'Interieurs' (interiors), nothing to do with Woody Allen's take on Ingmar Bergman.
Here's how Dimitri Tolstoi describes this inside look at the world of fruits and vegetables.
INTERIOR.
ADJECTIVE.
Meaning 1 : Situated inside.
Sens 2 : In the spiritual realm.
MALE NOUN.
Meaning 1 : Inside, synonym : heart.
Meaning 2 : Housing, synonym :at home.
"The interior I photographed is a search for detail informed by a vision, a journey through edibles.
This vision of their interior exposed, naked, evokes a world of organic and living things of which only the spirit (the mind) can make sense of."
BON VOYAGE……..DIMITRI TOLSTOÏ.
A trip, an adventure indeed.
The 'Interieurs' exhibit is at NK Art Gallery until November 14, 2010 or maybe Saturday (the 13) as directions indicate space located 10, rue Sainte Anastase 75003 PARIS is open Monday through Saturday.
(* Photos are from top to bottom: Chinese Apple, Black Tomato, White Cabbage, all copyright Dimitri Tolstoi, shared with permission from the artist).