I’m a food photographer and founder of MOMO FF. I create art to turn cinematic memory into visual stories through food.
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Unspoken Meals is a conceptual food photography series inspired by cinema, memory, silence, and emotional residue. Each image transforms ordinary meals into cinematic narratives through food, objects, texture, and absence. Influenced by filmmakers such as Bergman, Akerman, Wenders, Tarkovsky, and Pasolini, the series explores ritual, isolation, longing, and the emotional traces left behind after human presence disappears.
Where do you find inspiration?I find inspiration in cinema, memory, silence, and everyday rituals. Filmmakers like Chantal Akerman, Ingmar Bergman, Yasujirō Ozu, Michelangelo Antonioni, John Cassavetes, Wim Wenders, Tarkovsky, Pasolini, and the suburban melancholy of Tim Burton deeply influence my visual language. Food, light, texture, and absence often become emotional symbols in my work — transforming ordinary objects into cinematic narratives about presence, loneliness, repetition, and human traces left behind.
What would you do with $25,000?I would develop a visual series and exhibition that expands my ongoing work at the intersection of cinema and food, while also supporting the growth of MOMO Film Festival as a platform for independent voices.
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