{"id":2762,"date":"2024-02-12T16:41:34","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T15:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.andreacalestani.it\/urban-stories\/trip-to-the-east\/street-vendors\/"},"modified":"2024-02-17T17:06:51","modified_gmt":"2024-02-17T16:06:51","slug":"street-vendors","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.andreacalestani.it\/en\/urban-stories\/trip-to-the-east\/street-vendors\/","title":{"rendered":"Street vendors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1707829196558{margin-right: 50px !important;}&#8221;]For these photographs I couldn&#8217;t say whether I drew their inspiration from a glance or from a smell. Which of the two senses was the instigator of the shot? From the &#8220;<em>street-food<\/em>&#8221; of Taipei and Shanghai, to the picturesque &#8220;<em>floating markets<\/em>&#8221; of Thailand, wandering through alleys and markets crowded beyond belief. Full of unusual smells and sensations. And incredible color palettes.<\/p>\n<p>Then my curiosity took on a method of observing\/photographing who was cooking, who was eating, who was selling food. Sneaking into places where food was prepared and consumed. The shapes of food were another hypnotic attraction; like everything that was there, so distant and unusual compared to our habits. But also, the sellers of many other junks of every type and hypothetical necessity.<\/p>\n<p>Open-air markets, everywhere, but particularly in the East, are the best stage to talk about the habits and morals of the local people. And food, I don&#8217;t think there is another thing that establishes the sincerest identity imprint of a population: authentic &#8220;<em>genius loci<\/em>&#8220;. A cross-section of bulimic humanity emerged.<\/p>\n<p>And for the people I met on my journey it was obvious, their time was marked by rhythms based on the continuous, almost compulsive intake of food. At any time of day or night.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;16px&#8221;][vc_btn title=&#8221;Back&#8221; color=&#8221;black&#8221; size=&#8221;sm&#8221; i_icon_fontawesome=&#8221;fas fa-arrow-alt-circle-left&#8221; add_icon=&#8221;true&#8221; link=&#8221;url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.andreacalestani.it%2Fen%2Furban-stories%2Ftrip-to-the-east%2F|title:Trip%20to%20the%20East|&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;3\/4&#8243;][vc_masonry_media_grid grid_id=&#8221;vc_gid:1707832366254-2738d6c65f04b3d9461aeebe3b67ffb0-0&#8243; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1707829671170{border-top-width: 3px !important;border-right-width: 3px !important;border-bottom-width: 3px !important;border-left-width: 3px !important;border-left-color: #ffffff !important;border-left-style: initial !important;border-right-color: #ffffff !important;border-right-style: initial !important;border-top-color: #ffffff !important;border-top-style: initial !important;border-bottom-color: #ffffff !important;border-bottom-style: initial !important;}&#8221; include=&#8221;2707,2709,2711,2713,2715,2717,2719,2721,2723,2725,2727,2729,2731,2733,2735,2737,2739,2741,2743,2745,2747,2749,2751,2753,2755,2757,2759,2705&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1707829196558{margin-right: 50px !important;}&#8221;]For these photographs I couldn&#8217;t say whether I drew their inspiration&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2484,"parent":2530,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2762","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andreacalestani.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andreacalestani.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andreacalestani.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andreacalestani.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andreacalestani.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andreacalestani.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2762\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andreacalestani.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andreacalestani.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andreacalestani.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}