Photographer: Jonathan Blaustein

Title: one dollar’s worth of tomatillos from Mexico

Description: This photograph is a part of my 2008 series, The Value of a Dollar. During the Spring of that year, I shopped in the markets of New Mexico and purchased food items to photograph for symbolic content. Food is clearly a potent symbol of wealth, power, health, and globalization for the 21st Century. Each image in the project represents one dollar’s worth of food from around the planet, and was shot without artificial light, styling or retouching.

Size: 6x8” image on 8x10” paper

Media: Archival inkjet print

Edition Size: 20

Price: $40

To Benefit: As the United Nations frontline agency fighting against hunger, the UN World Food Programme (WPF) is continually responding to emergencies. They save lives by getting food to the hungry fast, and work to help prevent hunger in the future through programs that use food as a means to build assets, spread knowledge and nurture stronger, more dynamic communities. In 2010, WFP aims to bring food assistance to more than 90 million people in 73 countries. For more information: www.wfp.org

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