Food By Carmen Troesser

"It's usually not just the sight of something that makes me want to photograph it. It's everything that goes along with it: the way it smells or tastes, the weight of it, the way the wind moves it. My curiosity about objects and experiences becomes a compulsion. Taking pictures is my attempt to satisfy this compulsion. A professor once told me that to photograph something well, you must either love it or hate it...have feelings for it one way or the other. I think this is true. When I study something hard enough or look long enough, I develop a need to understand it, and a desire to communicate it." -- Carmen Troesser