Food, one of the most common elements in every culture worldwide, regardless of language or socio-economic bracket is also a topic of conversations that goes largely without controversy hence it’s choice as context in ‘The watershed’.

Using food as pictorial metaphors, this body of work visualizes our underlying beauty as well as fragility as humans barring technological advancement and individual or regional wealth. Bearing in mind that we are what we eat, It introspects individual and societal vulnerabilities whilst meditating on Economic inadequacies, especially in the global health sector, exacerbated by the Covid 19 pandemic.

Aware it was not the first time the world is bewildered by a pandemic and having contacted the virus myself, this macro photography study afforded me another kind of intimacy with food and invites viewers to focus less on potent economic irregularities in our world today, but continue to cherish our relationship with the foods that continue to sustain us.