In our current world's state of affairs, nearly one-third of food goes to waste according to a 2011 United Nations estimate. For one photographer, Klaus Pichler, this has become a passion that has inspired both fantastic displays of photography as well as a new book titled One Third. The new book displays images of food in advanced stages of decay along with speaking tones to which he intends to convey (more of these images can be seen on NPR's link below).
The book brings to image how the U.S. and Europe waste approximately ten times as much food per person as sub-Saharan Africa or Southeast Asia according the the U.N. estimate. (Report can be read by clicking this link) For the developing world, one of the major problems is storage, but unlike their counterparts in the developed world, consumers simply throw away huge amounts of food that are still edible.
Klaus Pichler says "there are lots of spontaneous decisions in the supermarket, people often don't stop to think about whether they're buying too much, or whether they could reuse leftovers instead of throwing them away."
Pichler explains more about his art and the story it tells to NPR's The Salt. The worst he mentioned about his photography process was about raw chicken and octopus decomposing at the same time. He says: "these two smells united, and it was horrible" and he further mentions that over the process it became important for him to "coexist with the rotting food."
For more on this story, visit the attached link below.
Revealing the Revoting Beauty of Food Waste NPR's The Salt
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/04/14/150494837/revealing-the-revolting-beauty-of-food-waste
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