The Spanish pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale spotlights the country’s agro-architectural infrastructure, with imagery by photographer Pedro Pegenaute.

Pegenaute visited over 50 sites across the country to create a photography series that reveals the buildings and landscapes involved in producing everyday food products.

These locations include factory buildings, farms, distribution centres, workshops and a mix of agricultural and natural landscapes.

The photos form part of a research project called Total Recipes, which looks at 10 classic Spanish dishes and reveals the entire infrastructural chain involved in sourcing or producing each ingredient.

The series was commissioned by architects Eduardo Castillo-Vinuesa and Manuel Ocaña, curators of this year’s Spanish pavilion exhibition, Foodscapes.

With the tagline, “By eating, we digest territories”, the exhibition shines a light on Spain’s extensive food production systems and the architecture that facilitates them.

Each of the Total Recipes was selected and investigated by a different architectural studio, but Pegenaute was tasked with producing photographs for all 10. This involved visiting more than 50 different sites in Spain and beyond.

Among them were a sweet-flavouring laboratory in Barcelona, a shipyard in Viga, a pig farm in Salamanca and a cork production facility in Portugal.

In a Dezeen exclusive, Pegenaute has selected a favourite shot for each recipe. Read on to see all 10:

Recipe: Drinking Forests: a Metabolic Recipe of Wine
Project author: Urbanitree (Daniel Ibañez, Vicente Guallart) and Manuel Bouzas
Location: Finsa, Santiago de Compostela

For a recipe highlighting the role of forests in the production of wine, Pegenaute visited manufacturers of timber and cork products.

“This photo captures the pine log collection area at the Finsa factory and the start of the production line for the wooden crates used for wine bottles,” said Pegenaute.

“The tongs of a lorry lift these like chopsticks and deposit them on a conveyor belt of another machine that skins them until they are bare. From there, they will go through different processes until, in this case, they are turned into wooden wine crates.”

Recipe: Traces of Almojábanas
Project author: Lucía Jalón Oyarzun
Location: Lucta, Barcelona

This project saw Pegenaute explore the factories involved in the production of Almojábanas, a type of fritter made from flour and cheese, coated with cinnamon and honey.

“This image is of shelves in a Lucta sweet-flavouring laboratory,” said Pegenaute.

“This is where the raw materials used as ingredients for the production of liquid flavourings for human consumption are stored and sorted. For several days after my visit, every time I opened the camera bag, the aroma that was trapped in it that day came out again.”

Recipe: Refried Potato Wafers with Leftover Sardine, Pagpag-Style Salad Residue and Pickled Aubergines in Garum Marinade
Project author: S&AA (Federico Soriano, Dolores Palacios)
Location: Planta Biometanización, Pinto

This recipe explores the practices of reusing leftover food, and of producing fermented or autolysed food. Ingredients are macerated using Garum sauce, a strong-flavoured condiment.

The project took Pegenaute to a biomethanation and composting plant on the outskirts of Madrid.

Recipe: Sea and Mountain Paella for Two Families and Friends
Project author: Aldayjover (Iñaki Alday, Margarita Jover, Jesús Arcos, Francisco Mesonero)
Location: Presa de Susqueda, Girona

A project tracing the impact of paella led to a river delta in Girona and the architecture involved in managing it.

“This is the interior of the Susqueda Dam, built on the Ter River by the engineer and architect, Arturo Rebollo in 1968,” said Pegenaute.

“The interior of this signature dam has the capacity to touch your emotions. Its silence is deafening; only the dripping of the rain filtering in from a corner could be heard.”

Recipe: Protein Clickbait for the 14 Percent
Project author: Common Accounts (Igor Bragado + Miles Gertler)
Location: Granja Valle de Odieta, Caparroso, Navarre

An exploration of the whey protein powder used to make protein shakes took Pegenaute to dairy industry structures used to grow herd feed, raise cows and extract milk.

“This is the interior of the largest rotary milking parlour in Spain, which belongs to the Valle de Odieta farm in Caparroso,” said the photographer.

Recipe: Polbo á Granxa (Galician-Style Octopus)
Project author: Institute for Postnatural Studies (Gabriel Alonso, Pablo Ferreira Navone, Yuri Tuma, Matteo Guarnaccia, Karol Poliwka, Clara Benito)
Location: Puerto de Corme, A Coruña

This project looks at the Galician gastronomic culture of fishing and cooking octopus, and how it has led to construction of the world’s first octopus farm in Spain.

Pegenaute visited the region to explore both the traditional and modern infrastructures of this practice.

“This is Rosa, who is making an octopus pot in the hangar where the women who form the Asociación de mujeres Tejedoras de Nasas work,” he said.

Recipe: Txipirones en su Tinta (Squid in its Ink)
Project author: GFA2 (Guillermo Fernández-Abascal) and Fake Industries (Urtzi Grau)
Location: Astillero Freire, Vigo

The global logistics involved in producing tinned squid include fishing in the South Atlantic Blue Hole, freezing in Indonesia and Yemen, packaging in the north of Spain, and shipping around the world.

Pegenaute photographed a shipyard involved in this product journey.

“This is the ship-access scaffolding,” he said. “Without a ship to climb, this ladder will take you wherever your imagination wants to go.”

Recipe: PrEP Bread
Project author: Ivan L Munuera, Pablo Saiz del Río and Vivian Rotie
Location: Delta del Ter, Basses d’en Coll, Giron

To trace the geographies involved in gluten-free bread, the recommended accompaniment to a type of medical treatment called Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), Pegenaute visited locations where ingredients are sourced.

“This is a rice paddy flooded by water from the Ter River Delta,” said Pegenaute.

“I am a huge fan of this kind of photograph because of the semi-abstraction. You have to spend time looking at it to see what it shows.”

Recipe: Ghost Tortilla
Project author: Lucia Tahan
Location: Granja Legaria, Navarra

With “ghost kitchens” tapping into the demand for traditional Spanish dishes on delivery, Pegenaute looked at the infrastructure behind egg production.

“These are hens for egg production at the Legaria Farm in Navarra,” said the photographer.

“In this space, the clucking of the hens in unison is a soft sound with a contained volume, but it is precisely this, in addition to its constancy, that makes it strident.”

Recipe: Total Recipe for (Eating) Croquetas de Jamón (in the Future)
Project author: C+ Arquitectas (Nerea Calvillo, María Buey González, Manuel Alba Montes)
Location: Finca El Encinar de Montejo, Salamanca

For a project exploring the ingredients of the popular Spanish croquette, Pegenaute visited a breeding facility for the Iberian pigs that supply the pork.

“Some will see a window, and others what it hides behind its dirt,” said the photographer.

The Venice Architecture Biennale takes place from 20 May to 26 November 2023. See Dezeen Events Guide for information about the event, plus a list of other architecture and design events taking place around the world.

Even though Samsung is yet to reveal all the specifications, the flagship equivalent phone from the F series is tipped to come with a pro-level camera

Shoot. Create. Share. Repeat.

The latest offering from Samsung is here to unleash your creativity in ways you could never imagine. The new Samsung Galaxy F54 5G phone from the F series promises to be a true value deal as it is packed with top-of-the-line features including a best-in-class camera.

People rely on their Galaxy smartphones for all that they do every single day and this brand-new smartphone is all set to take your world by storm. The latest Galaxy F54 5G line-up from Samsung with some truly incredible specs, of which what tops the list is its amazing camera that is sure to make you fall in love with this tech-packed smartphone. Even though Samsung is yet to reveal all the specifications, the flagship equivalent phone from the F series is tipped to come with a pro-level camera packed with a host of advanced features that will make your everyday totally amazing.

You can literally shoot non-stop from dusk to dawn – make lifetime memories on a trip to the Taj Mahal on a full moon night during the summer break, spot constellations in the night sky, or create a video memoir for a dear friend’s milestone birthday shot in the midst of a candlelight dinner. There is nothing that this amazing camera can’t capture with ease.

The camera system is rumoured to come with an improved Big Pixel Sensor, enhanced processing capabilities of up to 12 frames for AI processing, a dedicated Night Mode aka Nightography mode for the rear, and selfie cams for the best low light selfies you can imagine. The smartphone camera will also feature Astrolapse, using which you can capture all the glory of the night sky intime-lapse, with brightness and clarity.

The iconic No Shake Cam feature in Samsung smartphones has also reportedly witnessed an upgrade in this model as the OIS mechanically moves the image sensor in response to any shakes and moves detected in the phone. With No Shake Cam and 4K video capabilities, what you get are clear, stable videos and the power of DLSR camera-like features in your palm.

The latest Galaxy F54 5G is slated to totally rock the smartphone market and launching on 6th June at 12 noon. If you are looking for a new smartphone that checks all the boxes for style, performance, and camera, head over to Flipkart or Samsung.com to pre-reserve your Samsung F54 5G at just ₹999, and get Rs. 2000 off. Then, just click, share, and repeat. Let the photos do all the talking!

Disclaimer: This article has been produced on behalf of the brand by HT Brand Studio.

 Remèdes Galerie presents Veronica Mecchia‘s solo exhibition, Wild Flowers.

Italian photographer, born in Paris, Veronica Mecchia grew up in Milan where she first trained in art history and then in photography with Giuliana Traverso at the “Il Diaframma” Gallery in Milan.

In 2003, she returned to Paris where she continued her art history training before devoting herself entirely to photography.

Her artistic affiliation with the photographer Arno Rafael Minkkinen, of whom she was a pupil in Italy and whom she considers to be her mentor, translates into an imperious propensity to maintain an organic link with nature.

Her black & white photographic work explores the relationship of Man to his environment in a personal version. Through strong artistic choices: film, self-portrait, nude, black & white;  she shows her state of mind and reveals her deep identity by being part of the ephemeral with poetry.

As if absorbed by the beauty of things or places that move her, Veronica Mecchia encourages us, through her photographs, to suspend time in gentle contemplation and leaves us with a light heart, the desire like her, to poetically inhabit the world.

The exhibition will open with a vernissage on Thursday June 1 from 5 p.m.

Veronica Mecchia : Wild Flowers
from 02.06.2023 > 29.06.2023 and from 04.09.2023 > 15.09.2023
Remèdes Galerie
143, rue du Temple
75003 Paris
[email protected]
www.remedes-galerie.com

Free admission
Tuesday to Saturday, 1 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Photographer Bxlyfe is more than his camera. While he’s captured shows by JID, Bas, Juice WRLD and others since he was a teenager, the 22-year-old multi-faceted creative has also put on his own art galleries meant to highlight disparate artists. He’s also had a firsthand look at how artists evolve onstage. 

“There’s a huge difference. This run included a live band,” Bxlyfe told REVOLT about JID’s progress on tours. “It was like a hip hop rock show. Ending the show on ‘Stick’ was crazy. They would just go all out and rock out until Devontae couldn’t even drum anymore (laughs). And then they just throw the sticks.”

In this installment of “Tour Tales,” the New York-bred photographer explains what the craziest Dreamville show he ever shot was, what it was like shooting Juice WRLD in Sweden, and how he plans to use art to connect creatives around the world.

You’ve been photographing live shows since you were 17, and the last four years have been some of your best work. What’s the best show you’ve photographed in that timeframe?

Dreamville’s show at Red Rocks is one of the craziest shows I’ve ever shot. It was beautiful from start to finish. It was a once-in-a-lifetime show. It was a perfect day. You’re under the stars, man. That was probably the highest elevation I’ve ever shot at (laughs). Before shooting, I like to get a good scope of everything. During the show was crazy because I didn’t even know how tall the top seats are in Red Rocks. But, it took me a good 30 minutes to get up there and 30 minutes to get back down. But, it was worth it.

How has JID’s live show evolved from his “Catch Me If You Can Tour” from 2019 to his latest “Luv is 4ever Tour”?

There’s a huge difference. This run included a live band. Shout out to my boy Sam and Devante. Sam was on the keytar, and Tae was on the drums. They elevated the show to such a crazy aspect. It was like a hip hop rock show. Ending the show on “Stick” was crazy. They would just go all out and rock out until Devontae couldn’t even drum anymore (laughs). And then they just throw the sticks.

You also went on tour with Bas. I remember seeing you capture an insane photo of him and J. Cole performing in Paris.

Yeah, that was a part of the whole summer tour. We were out there for about two or three weeks. That specific moment came about when Bas was doing his rollout for “The Jackie.”

What shots do you like to get of him?

I really like to get shots of him in the moment. It’s just capturing in the moment. There’s also a lot of fan love. It’s all about storytelling and showing people my world and perspective.

Who’s another artist you really enjoyed photographing?

Not going to lie. Photographing Juice WRLD was crazy. He was one of the most special people that I’ve captured. I found out about him early when he didn’t even have 4,000 followers or whatever. He was just putting out song after song after song after song after song. And he was talking about a lot of the stuff I was going through then too. I remember shooting Juice performed at [Smash Fest on July 2, 2019] in Sweden. He was one of those people who was larger than life.

Your tour photography is only one part of what you do, correct?

Yeah, before I left for the “Luv Is 4ever Tour,” I did a gallery show at AM + PM Gallery in Brooklyn. Shout out to my boy Joseph. It was a collaborative gallery. What I’ve been trying to do within my community and the art world is expand it and allow ideas to flow between different artists. The gallery was called “The Subway Series.” The idea behind that was bringing two different creatives into one room and showing off both sides. I did the gallery with my boy Kyzer, a phenomenal painter. One side was just dedicated to all of his artwork, and the other side was all of my photos. Before we did the gallery, we collaborated on a piece. That was my first time painting ever. We were creating new techniques like burning through the canvas or distorting it. Distortion is character.

My other friend Omi was also part of it. We collaborated on a photo I took prior of the Clermont twins and brought it to life in a painting. I’m also a huge fan of Omi’s work. I also worked on the mural for the visuals for Metro Boomin’s “Superhero (Heroes & Villains)” music video.

Any other creative projects from you?

My friend and I are brainstorming this new idea I have that’s a pop-up art gallery, but everyone is selling out of their trunks. I want to build the community around that. I want to have maybe 20 or 30 cars with everyone selling different stuff out of their trunk. I’m also going to do a softball game as well. During COVID in 2020, I did a giveback derby with my boy Brian. That was beautiful. Seeing everyone come together and support a place where I grew up playing baseball was fire.

What do you have coming up for the rest of the year?

I’m really trying to expand the art community within my city and really bring a whole bunch of creatives together. This is bigger than me, and I feel like New York needs to see it, and L.A., Atlanta, London, Australia, and the whole globe. I think this is really something that can be impactful worldwide.

Debbie Gunter

I remember being on the other side of the ’80s, laughing with my friends as we looked at old photos and how we dressed during our teen years. We were appalled but grateful styles changed. There was no way high-waisted jeans would ever come back in style; we just knew it. So, you can imagine our horror when they came back in vogue around 2015. How was that possible? What was next, shoulder pads? Well, wouldn’t you know … never saw that one coming.

Another vivid memory is transitioning from my beloved record albums to 8-track tapes, cassette tapes, CDs and then the iPod. The equipment we used for listening to music kept getting smaller and way more convenient, which, while cool, could never come close to the sound of that needle on vinyl. Would you have ever imagined that after decades of CDs being the number one way people purchased albums, vinyl sales topped them in 2022, according to Billboard.com?

In keeping with the cliche that “everything comes back in style eventually,” another outdated trend is on the rise. With the advances in digital photography, who would have thought using actual film would be relevant again? I first realized the film revival was a thing when my daughter’s super-hip, 30-something-year-old now-brother-in-law came to visit last year, 35mm manual camera in tow.

In this month’s edition, we share why some local photographers have jumped on board with this “old-fashioned” way to take pictures. Be sure to read about their passion HERE.

So, what’s next? Is there anything else you think has a chance at a comeback? Based on The Community Paper’s recent uptick in print subscriptions, I’m going with print media. Let me know what you think.

Enjoy this first month of summer, and don’t forget to give the dads in your life some extra love on the 18th!

Zach VanCamp captures a touching moment between his wife and son using a Leica M7 35mm camera. (ZACH VANCAMP)

Today’s featured photographer is Bud Lee. The esteemed photojournalist studied at the Columbia School of Fine Arts and the National Academy of Fine Arts in New York in the early 1960s before abandoning fine art and studio photography in favour of a more action-packed vocation. After joining the US Army in 1965 amid the war in Vietnam, he was assigned to Stars and Stripes as a photographer for the prestigious publication. 

In 1966, the Department of Defense and the National Press Photographers Association named Lee the ‘US Military Photographer of the Year’. This early feat was impressive but a mere sign of things to come. The following year, Lee began working for Life magazine as a photojournalist and found himself in the right place at the right time during one of his very first assignments. 

In July 1967, following the arrest, beating, and imprisonment of Black taxi driver John Smith, the city of Newark fell into a spiral of civil unrest resulting in the infamous riots in New Jersey’s largest city. As the streets descended into an urban battlefield of destruction and bloodshed, Lee was appointed to document the scenes as they unfolded. 

Over five days of rioting, 26 people were killed by police gunfire, with hundreds more critically injured, thousands arrested, and millions of dollars in property damage incurred. The poignant collection of photographs Lee took over this period exposed the atrocities to the world.

At the time, Lee couldn’t conceive the influence his shots would have in the immediate aftermath of the riots, nor could he imagine their ongoing relevance. Most famously, Lee bore witness to the cold-blooded murder of Billy Furr, a 24-year-old who was shot in the back by two police officers after he was caught looting a store for beer. One of the iconic photos below shows a police officer standing over Furr’s body. 

Lee’s photographs were featured in Life over the months following the riots, bringing unpalatable truths to the American public. These moments captured on film remain to this day a harrowing but vital reminder of an eminently dark corner of American history. 

Schoolchildren frequently ask why history is important. In answer to such questions, knowledge of the past’s various atrocities and injustices allows us to learn from our mistakes and ensure events like those seen below never repeat themselves. 

Thankfully, Lee’s photographs are to be further immortalised in The War Is Here: Newark 1967, a new photography book set to publish on May 22nd, 2023, via Ze Books. The book will feature an expansive collection of Lee’s photography from the Newark Riots, accompanied by a foreword from Honorable Ras J. Baraka, 40th Mayor of Newark, NJ and an essay by journalist Chris Campion. 

Sadly, Bud Lee passed away in 2015, aged 74, but his legacy lives on as one of America’s most revered photojournalists of the 20th century. 

SOUTH SALT LAKE, Utah — We’re closing out Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month with a closer look at a new exhibit in South Salt Lake that highlights the contributions of Chinese immigrants in Utah.

The late Corky Lee was a legendary photographer who spent decades documenting the Asian experience and capturing what he saw as injustices among Chinese railroad workers.

“People would call him a ‘Corky-pedia’ because he knew so much about Asian America,” said Karen Zhou, Lee’s longtime partner.

It’s a bitter-sweet time for Zhou. Lee died in 2021 due to complications from COVID-19.

“He lived life with this unwavering purpose,” Zhou said.

She organized the “Making History Exhibit,” showcasing the challenges Asian Americans encountered in everyday life from racial injustice and discrimination.

“This is from my journey with him from 2014-2019 when he was on a quest to reclaim history,” she said. “I was documenting behind the scenes the process, the people, and Corky, of course.”

His sole mission to Utah over the years was to right a wrong.

Lee felt Chinese immigrants who worked on the first transcontinental railroad were omitted from history books.

In 2014, he recreated a photo of the 1869 gold spike celebration at Promontory Summit, this time using descendants of the Chinese workers who laid much of the track.

“I also felt that one day, it’s not only about their story but his story,” Zhou said.

This form of photographic justice has come full circle for Lee.

For Zhou, this is the best way she knows to honor his legacy and make him proud.

“I feel overwhelmed but in a positive way. I know Corky’s here. His spirit is here.”

The exhibit is located inside the Chinatown Supermarket at 3390 S. State Street in South Salt Lake. It’s free and open to the public until October.