Slow Down
Our own Chief Creative Officer, Douglas Gayeton, is a slow food aficionado and spends part of the year in Tuscany…he’s also a widely-recognized photographer. The result is a selection of eclectic photos that will have you thinking not only about delicious food, but the character of its origins, its preparation, and its consumption. Food, like photography, is in some ways just as much about process as outcomes. You can sample Douglas’ photographic outcomes at an opening for his work this weekend in Petaluma. The gallery describes the show as follows, reprinted from Boing Boing’s review of the exhibit:
“Douglas Gayeton has explored Tuscany and the heart of Italy’s “Slow Living” culture since the early 90’s. With a keen eye for stories and an ear for Italian dialect, he intertwines the literal with the figurative in a photographic approach he calls the flat film. To become immersed in one of these works is to experience a world where time is at once collapsed and expanded.
Regarding his work process, Gayeton says, “I’ve always seen photography as being about a single moment, whereas film is about orchestrating a sequence of moments (scenes) to create a larger narrative.”