Food websites attract almost as many online viewers as virtual galleries of nude models, and yet no one ever questions the morality of teasing people's taste buds with pictures of tempting fruits or vegetables in their natural state. By arranging mosaics of food on human canvases, chef Tiberio Simone and photographer Matt Freedman, demonstrate how our appetite for attractive bodies is no more unnatural or perverse than our hunger for appealing food. Their collected work, La Figa: Visions of Food and Form, provides a visual feast that celebrates the diverse textures, shapes, and colors of both food and the human body.
This article appears in Nov 3-9, 2011.