What do members of the Ayme family in Ecuador have in common with the Revis family of North Carolina, the Ukitas of Japan, or the extended family of the Celik of Turkey? To find out, come to Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, a fascinating photo essay documenting 12 families from 12 countries. Based on the book by Peter Menzel and Faith D.
Born in 1948, Peter Menzel is an American freelance photojournalist, known for his work on technological and scientific subjects. His work: Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, is a combination of images and essays that captures thirty different families from around the world, surrounded by their food for the week. Next to this is a description.
A friend emailed me photos and excerpts from Peter Menzel’s 2005 book, “Hungry Planet:What The World Eats” this week. Fascinating, thought-provoking and disturbing in equal measure, the book examines the food purchases of 30 families from 40 countries over a week. The authors present this book as a photo essay. The families are pictured.
Hot, Hungry Planet is a narrative about the people attempting to reconcile the threat of climate change with the need to feed a growing world population. In Hot, Hungry Planet, I take readers on a global journey that explores the human story behind complex, hot-button issues of food security, social justice, climate change, and the environment.
Click on link to access the photo of the Aboubakar family photo from Menzels Hungry Planet:. In this essay, I will analyze a photograph that Peter Menzel took for his Hungry Planet Project. I will dissect his photograph of the Aboubakar family and analyze how the photograph conveys Menzel's purpose of the project. The Aboubakar family is originally from Darfur province of Sudan and was.