Thursday, October 1, 2009

BLog Post #6


I have recently started focusing my photography on food. A couple weeks ago I worked on a Rocco Dispirito cookbook shoot with the photographer Kritsada Panichgul (www.kritsada.com). Kritsada is an immensely talented photographer and it was a wonderful experience learning from him and also working with Rocco. The experience has pushed me in this new direction as an aspiring food photographer.

This is an image of an openfaced sandwich I made for breakfast. It is my version of an Argentine classic, the choripan, converted into a breakfast sandwich. From bottom up there is a toasted piece of bread, grilled lettuce and onion, sliced tomato, chorizo, over-easy egg, drizzled with some chimichurri. It encompasses most of the things I love about food.

Being raised in an Argentine family, I developed a love for simple food that aims to highlight the natural flavors of quality ingredients. What puts this over the top for me is the over easy egg. A runny egg yoke might be my favorite breakfast item, I even like it more than bacon.

This is an image with personal value to me. It illustrates the foods I love while also illuminating my heritage and demonstrating how that heritage influences my creative ideas into the future.

Buen provecho.





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Jonathan Meter is a freelance photographer and artist with a keen insight into the human spirit and a unique perspective on the world around him. Jonathan’s vision allows him to see the potential in the mundane and elicit beauty, movement and life from the unexpected. The abstract images Jonathan creates illustrate the integration of music into his work, as he uses rhythm and melody to channel the essence of an object and capture its energy in a still image. Through his photographic art, Jonathan tells his own story, conveying his creative ideas and understanding of the world through the use of color, light and rhythm.

Jonathan’s work is driven by his passion for illuminating his subjects’ past, present and future in a single image. His open mind and natural thoughtfulness allow him to evoke his subjects’ genuine emotions and essential personalities in both posed and candid shots. Fascinated by the relationship between photographer and subject, Jonathan seeks to capture his subjects in the context of their life history, and thereby communicate that history to others through his work. Jonathan grew up in Philadelphia, PA and currently lives in New York City.