Benizi Santamaria, From the Market to the Plate. (PEOPLE 2020)

Having worked in the inner Melbourne city suburbs of Richmond, Collingwood and Fitzroy over 30 years, I have met many people in the food supply, preparation and service industry. Over the years, I have also documented their working lives in a collection of Environmental Portraits. I guess there is an advantage to familiarity of first names in photographing my subject. Here there is neither a studio set up nor a fuss of assistants and hard directions to call the shots. It's as casual as how friends meet. For us it's just a camera, our names and stories to share.

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