“The Poverty Line”, Athens Photo Festival 2019, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece, 13.06.2019 – 28.07.2019
Credit: Athens Photo Festival
‘The Poverty Line’ uses the universal lens of food to examine the daily choices you would face if you lived at the poverty line. Over the last 8 years, the artists travelled 150,000 km to photograph this project across 31 countries/territories.
The project takes a typological approach over time. Each country’s figure is based on their poverty line definition and official national statistics to derive a per capita per day rate. Food is then procured from local markets using that monetary amount.
Each piece of work is photographed with the food items placed on local newspapers purchased on the day of the shoot, with the dimensions, lighting carefully measured to express a uniform aesthetic across time and geographical spread.
Installation View: "The Poverty Line", Athens Photo Festival 2019, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece, 2019.
