The Bokeh of Food

Blurry. The untold story. The background. Bokeh; the Japanese word that means blur or haze. The unfocused areas of a photograph are bokeh. Some of my favorite photographs tell a story through the indistinct reflections of light and color behind the subject. We are not trained to focus on the bokeh, but there is always a story there to be told. Our eyes tune it out, but do we dig deeper? Dig deeper into the earth where your food is grown. Dig deeper into the warehouses where your meat is raised. Dig deeper into what your kids are eating before school, at school, after school, and in front of the tele at night. Make connections between where the money flows and the health issues facing this nation. Pull the out of focus into focus.