Ahmet Degirmenci Food & Photography

I think taking a photograph of the food is a big art. It has showed everybody’s daily life and culture over the years. While the time goes quickly, your need would change as well. People’s need keep changing all the time, so it is always better to taking photographs what was your culture and what it is now. Food plays a big role in cultures. All these photographs will present us in the future. After centuries people will look at the photographs of our food culture and will try to understand how was our eating habits, how healthy we were and how creative we were. Same for us, now we look at the photographs of the food last 50-100 years and figuring out how was their food culture, what was the food like, photographing the food was an art? Photographing the food is an art, just like the producing and presenting the food. I believe who ever takes a photograph of the food, is creating a documentary for future, without knowing it.

Ahmet D.

What is “The Art of Food” Learning Community?

Join the Art of Food First Year Learning Community Today!

This learning community explores the “art” in the culinary arts. Can we look at food in aesthetic terms of art, beauty, and taste? Can we appreciate food like a work of art? Our learning community is comprised of first-year Hospitality students in Culinary Arts I or Baking and Pastry I, join together in the History of Photography with a focus and a lens on food as art.

Increase the scope of your learning by enrolling in this exciting and ground breaking learning community. Meet and connect with faculty across disciplines. Discover the interconnectedness of disciplines within the college, between Humanities (HUM) and Hospitality Management (HGMT) and the worlds you will work in. Gain a new ‘lens’ from which to view your chosen course of study!

To become a participant in the FYLC students are required to register for:

Either HMGT1203- Culinary Arts I OR HMGT1204 Baking & Pastry I

PLUS

ARTH1100 – History of Photography*

(* ARTH 1100 fulfills a Creative Expression course, Liberal Arts course, or Open Elective )