Arts + Literature Laboratory, FlakPhoto Projects, and Wisconsin Science Festival welcome the Wisconsin Book Festival for three nature-themed book talks by authors Mary Jo Hoffman, Donald S. Clark, and George Steinmetz on Saturday, October 19, 2024.
In this final talk of the day at 7:30pm, photographer George Steinmetz will discuss Feed the Planet: a Photographic Journey to the World's Food (Abrams Books, 2024) in conversation with Michael King.
Feed the Planet documents the global effort that puts food on our tables and transforms the surface of the Earth. Do you know where your food comes from? To find out, Steinmetz spent a decade documenting food production across thirty-six countries on six continents, twenty-seven US states, and five oceans.
In striking aerial images, Steinmetz captures the massive scale of twenty-first-century agriculture that has sculpted 40 percent of the Earth’s surface and depleted the fish in its seas. He takes us to places that most of us never see, although our very lives depend on them. From Kansas wheat fields to a shrimp cocktail’s origins in India to cattle stations in Australia larger than some countries, Steinmetz tracks the foods we eat back to land and sea, field and factory. He explores the farming of staples like wheat and rice, the cultivation of vegetables and fruits, fishing and aquaculture, and meat production, he surveys artisanal farming in diverse cultures, and he penetrates vast agribusinesses that fuel international trade.
