03.Downtown1.WDC.11dec05
Chef . Sunday Photo Walk . Downtown . Massachusetts Avenue between 11th and 12th Streets, NW . WDC . Sunday afternoon, 11 December 2005
Having worked in the catering industry for many years one of the series that I plan to embark on, in the new year and beyound, is to document, capture and photograph the process of putting on an event. Including a series that will focus on Chefs. So, when ever I come across anyone in chef, kitchen or catering gearing it is almost as if I met an old friend. I'd happen this man walking east on Massachusetts Avenue and I was walking west. I'd inquire if I may photograpoh him, in connection my Sunday Photo Walk Documentary Project. He said yes. I mentioned that I work in the catering industry and asked what companies did he work for. He pointed at his hat and said "Legal Seafood.."
Though I've known man y who work in the restaurant industry and have operated my own such business before I actually prefer catering at offsite locations. Where the events change each day.
I love catering as mush as I do photography. However, I don't like the racism that, over the years, I've had to deal with, in catering, in a similar way as I now refuse to put up with the racism that I confront when I take pictures.
My photography is a statement to that fact.
Elvert Xavier Barnes Photography
03.Downtown1.WDC.11dec05
Chef . Sunday Photo Walk . Downtown . Massachusetts Avenue between 11th and 12th Streets, NW . WDC . Sunday afternoon, 11 December 2005
Having worked in the catering industry for many years one of the series that I plan to embark on, in the new year and beyound, is to document, capture and photograph the process of putting on an event. Including a series that will focus on Chefs. So, when ever I come across anyone in chef, kitchen or catering gearing it is almost as if I met an old friend. I'd happen this man walking east on Massachusetts Avenue and I was walking west. I'd inquire if I may photograpoh him, in connection my Sunday Photo Walk Documentary Project. He said yes. I mentioned that I work in the catering industry and asked what companies did he work for. He pointed at his hat and said "Legal Seafood.."
Though I've known man y who work in the restaurant industry and have operated my own such business before I actually prefer catering at offsite locations. Where the events change each day.
I love catering as mush as I do photography. However, I don't like the racism that, over the years, I've had to deal with, in catering, in a similar way as I now refuse to put up with the racism that I confront when I take pictures.
My photography is a statement to that fact.
Elvert Xavier Barnes Photography