James Bellorini

Manna - Food, identity, & belonging (2020)

Digital photographic images.

I developed Manna for the final major project for my Master's Degree in Photography.

The project explores food as a cultural artefact and symbol of personal genealogy. I worked with contributors of mixed-heritage and migratory backgrounds and experiences. We explored the power of food to connect us to belonging. Its ability to invoke emotions, memories, pleasure, and other sensations. Things that connect people with their history and heritage. And which they carry with them when they are seeking to find a place to belong or call home. 
Close-up colour photograph of a female model with tattooed hands eating a mango.
Close-up colour photograph of the tattoed back of a young woman with her hand over her shoulder holding an apricot.
Close-up colour photograph of a female model with a tattooed shoulder facing away from the camera with one hand across her shoulder blade.
Colour photograph of various fruits including peaches and pears on a white cloth.
Colour photograph of a woman's arm holding a pear while lying on grass outdoors.
Colour photograph of a woman in a grey dress lying on a picnic rug with her hands over her eyes and holding a biscuit in one hand.
Colour photograph of green grapes on the vine.
Colour photograph of a woman sitting on a picnic rug with her hands clasped and a plate of biscuits by her leg.
Colour photograph of rosehips growing on a bush.
A colour photograph of a black woman dressed in white sitting on a picnic rug eating some fruit and looking at the landscape around her.
Close-up photograph of a black woman's hands picking an opened pomegranate.
Close-up photograph of a black woman's hand holding an opened pomegranate.
Close-up photograph of a picnic with some milk spilt across a mirror.
Close-up photograph of figs on a fig tree.
Colour photograph of a peach and a melting strawberry ice-cream on a blue tabletop.
A colour photograph of unripe dates on a white tablecloth sat on a blue tabletop.
A colour photograph of a young woman eating an apple on a beach in sunshine reflected in a mirror held by another person.
Colour photograph of a young man eating passion fruit.
Colour photograph of a young woman eating ice cream from a spoon.
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