It's said that a picture is worth a thousand words, but it's worth a thousand meals to Carl Warner.
The British photographer has carved out a niche for himself by specializing in foodscapes, landscape photographs in which every item is edible.
That means broccoli stalks portray trees, grated cheese substitutes for sandy dirt roads, and cinnamon sticks become the hull of a Chinese junk.
Warner started making foodscapes 10 years ago when he was working in the advertising world and was prone to what he calls a roller-coaster ride of feast and famine.
Craving to do more unusual work than his previous ventures, he decided to sink his teeth into something more challenging.
But what to do? What to do?
Luckily, Warner found inspiration at a food and vegetable market in the form of portobello mushrooms. It seems the curving trunks and parasol canopies gave him a taste of the African savanna and he decided to see if he could bring the concept to fruition.
And it worked!
The first shoot over 10 years ago was done in one day and the same day that the idea occurred to me, he told AOL News in an e-mail interview. Having shot the landscape I shot the sky separately and then had it retouched together a few days later.
Since then, Warner has cooked up quite a career doing foodscapes for various advertising agencies and food clients throughout Europe. And now the most appetizing photos have been compiled into a book, Carl Warner's Food Landscapes (Abrams).
Full story: http://www.aolnews.com/weird-news/article/artist-builds-edible-world-with-foodscapes/19665135
The British photographer has carved out a niche for himself by specializing in foodscapes, landscape photographs in which every item is edible.
That means broccoli stalks portray trees, grated cheese substitutes for sandy dirt roads, and cinnamon sticks become the hull of a Chinese junk.
Warner started making foodscapes 10 years ago when he was working in the advertising world and was prone to what he calls a roller-coaster ride of feast and famine.
Craving to do more unusual work than his previous ventures, he decided to sink his teeth into something more challenging.
But what to do? What to do?
Luckily, Warner found inspiration at a food and vegetable market in the form of portobello mushrooms. It seems the curving trunks and parasol canopies gave him a taste of the African savanna and he decided to see if he could bring the concept to fruition.
And it worked!
The first shoot over 10 years ago was done in one day and the same day that the idea occurred to me, he told AOL News in an e-mail interview. Having shot the landscape I shot the sky separately and then had it retouched together a few days later.
Since then, Warner has cooked up quite a career doing foodscapes for various advertising agencies and food clients throughout Europe. And now the most appetizing photos have been compiled into a book, Carl Warner's Food Landscapes (Abrams).
Full story: http://www.aolnews.com/weird-news/article/artist-builds-edible-world-with-foodscapes/19665135
