Meatheads Photo | TrekEarth

Photographer’s Note

And then, he created the animals...

And, then he said to the people:

" You will be divided among those who'll live by the pork and those who won't.

And, you'll be fighting fiercely to death because of that and you'll be praising my name whilst killing each other"

And, it is as he had spoken.
Amen

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A Fanfare For The Working Man... ...in the food business...
(wink, wink)

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peterd, rlrad, bostankorkulugu, noborders, mpdre, Clairedelune, josediogo1958 trouve(nt) cette note utile

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adrost (2366) 2009-03-24 4:18

Dear G.

Nie ma jak trzymac swoj styl i plynac pod prad.
A swinskie ryje sa zawsze w modzie.

Rewelacyjna praca choc leciwa...nie ma jak archiwum. Widac co nas ksztaltowalo.

Serdecznosci
a.

rlrad (1189) 2009-03-24 4:43

Strong image, strong statement.

The grain, the self satisfied look on the butcher and those hogs heads just blow me away.

Thanks for another one to study.

Reed

michelloupis (0) 2009-03-24 6:14

Another great one George. Brutal effective processing of a somewhere daily reality.

Love it!

n.

scalerman (25783) 2009-03-24 8:13

George: not sure about this one - maybe your pushing the creative processing envelope to the limit - nonetheless, since it's film - you get the full marks. c

tomescuc (2837) 2009-03-24 12:32

I think the PP, even if it is quite heavy, works here. The image has a macabre and artistic quality. Personally, I am not thinking much of a working man here. Rather a vegetarian propaganda poster (and I do not use "propaganda" in this context as a bad connotation).
Stay healthy,
Cristian

bostankorkulugu (33876) 2009-03-24 14:40

they seem to be happy to be sloughtered, with those big big smiles on their faces... loved the shot... loved the note even more... take care george... K.

polter (6154) 2009-03-24 14:48

Stwórca w kapeluszu i stroju ogrodnika, sadzący sennie uśmiechnięte świńskie łby...
Trochę się pogubiłam ?
A przecież stwórca-ogrodnik szalenie serio podchodzi do świńskiego zagadnienia. Wykonywać rzetelnie pracę rzeźnika - niekoniecznie co lub kto jest przedmiotem rzezi...
Człowiek jako istota (kreatura po angielsku) potrafi porażać...
Pozdrawiam z ciarkami na plecach T.

ninaL (19550) 2009-03-25 1:04

Z miniaturki myslam, ze to Polter (te czernie) !
Ale jest to caly Polonez.
Piekna obrobka, dales mocno czadu.
Ze tez mozna tak pokazac artystycznie po prostu swinskie glowy i ich obrabiacza !
Pozdrawiam.

PS : a tu zamiast zapowiadanego lata, ciagle Mistral i zimno mi w pupe ;)))

noborders (14201) 2009-03-25 10:48

Poor beasts, they seem to be smiling even in their deaths... attractive and repulsive in the same time (for me, vegetarian), your PP is really fantastic, the light and the grains make it a wonderful photo.
Compliments, I'll be back !
Best,
Cath.

chris04stop (2489) 2009-03-26 17:31

This is a great pic, George, really a strong one. But... so terrible! So cruel!
Anyway, bravo. This is part of your style. Right?
Anna Paola

mpdre (1587) 2009-04-01 17:24

:-)))

This is amazingly surreal. Such a scene can only be yours... :-)))

The extreme PP here is at its best... how to show those smiley pig heads otherwise. Yes, I know, I have seen various full color slaughtered pieces of meat presented here in TE like a big trophy :-)))

Great note!

Meat and peace George!

Andre

Clairedelune (4885) 2009-04-05 18:27

I looked at this photo many, many times. And I still don't know what to say. I think it's precious. Very precious. We don't see such "heads" around anymore. We eat (or not) the meat, but it is usually "disembodied", in pieces, so that we have only a vague idea that it was a living animal before.
Your heavy touch on dark here has give a certain 'macabre' feel to an otherwise very 'normal' (at the time) situation.
Excellent framing. I'm serious. All the elements are exactly at the right place.
Meatheads or meet heads? :)
Claire

Merline (6578) 2009-04-06 7:06

Only you could do this. Brutal PP treatment but it fits a 100%. The light is wondrous as is the tonality. Very artistic take and like a punch in the stomach. Their smiles leave me speachless. In my infancy you could still see this kind of display of heads, bodies in butcheries. The cuts were done on demand. Now, everything is wrapped and like Claire says, disembodied. I don't eat pork anymore and little meat.
Your note is as remarkable as the photograph. Thank you. Bowing down, deeply.
Michèle

josediogo1958 (436) 2009-04-07 8:45