Astrid Navas Style assignment

Real Food by Martin Parr

Martin Parr is British documentary photographer and I think this book is a good portrayal of that exactly. This book consists of lots of pictures of food, and although most people would think of fancy set up plates and good lighting to showcase food in photographs, Parr photos are truly spontaneous and in the moment with its true essence and color. This way of showing food, something most (if not all) of us enjoy, is unique because it is interesting by the way he tends to isolate most of the food items he photographed. As a documentary photographer he is always interested in analyzing society through his photographs and trying to understand it. The colors in these images are all full of reality and saturated in away that may even seem unusual at first. I think the main reason the pictures have this feel is because most of these were taken using a flash and that adds to the oddness of the colors and shadows.