All photos © Mary Parisi. Above: “Flash in the Pan”

Mary Parisi‘s artistic interpretation of food reveal moody and even sensual qualities. Tension arises between our notions of delicious food and Parisi’s close inspection of the details, challenging what appeals to our senses of sight, taste, and smell. Inspired and haunted by graphic food memories from her childhood Parisi explains, “My father made soup every Monday and when he began putting multiple pairs of bright yellow chicken feet into the broth, chicken soup was never again a simple comfort.”

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Life Saver © Caren Alpert

San Francisco based photographer Caren Alpert used her passion of food imagery and food issues to create her latest fine art project microscopically photographing food. Through her lens, common food items from blueberries to fortune cookies—are transformed into wondrous and often mysterious landscapes of texture and color. Alpert showed My Life With Science, Art and Food as a participant at this year’s Photolucida in Portland, Oregon.

“As a food lover and a photographer I answer these questions visually. Using scientific laboratory photo equipment, I journey over the surfaces of both organic and processed foods: my own favorites and America’s over-indulgences. The closer the lens got, the more I saw food and consumers of food (all of us!) as part of a larger eco-system than mere sustenance.” —Caren Alpert

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© Ed Anderson

Working mostly on location, Ed Anderson specializes in food and the people that make it happen. His use of natural light and minimal styling has appealed to a variety of editorial, advertising, and publishing clients.

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© Terry Heffernan.

Based in San Francisco, still life and commercial photographer Terry Heffernan has a keen eye for transforming the most simple food items into attractive and tasty displays.

© Klaus Enrique

“I had been working on a photography series in which I surrounded an isolated human body part with a large quantity of a certain object, when I was struck by the idea for this project. While I was photographing a human eye that was peeking out amongst hundreds of leaves, it occurred to me that I could actually utilize leaves to construct portraits or masks. I researched what other artists had created along these lines and discovered that, as usual, someone somewhere had already done something similar. In this case it was the artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo, who made paintings with this concept in mind over 400 years ago. I decided to recreate Arcimboldo’s work, and eventually to create my own images with his paintings as inspiration.”

More Images from Klaus Enrique’s can be seen in the The Curator 2011 online gallery.