Collective photo exhibition

Over the course of the Food2Gather project many moments were captured on camera. You can filter the pictures according to the country or topic either food to gather or food together. Working with people in vulnerable situations has led us to blur some of the faces to protect people’s privacy. In case you would like to view only the picture of one country or on the topic food together or food to gather you can click on one of the buttons.

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Plates with foods and people serving themselves. Credit Laura Terragni
Garden boxes at the library in Oslo during winter. Credit: Ida Tolgensbakk
Restaurant menu with mango lassi, sweet potatoe fries and hot wings in Oslo. Credit Ida Tolgenbakk
Picture of a mural that is an advertisement of the brand Mills in a street in Oslo with a family eating hotdogs during a picnic.
a young woman from Albania – who got the refugee status – is volunteer in the Secours Populaire (food aid). During the first confinement due to the Covid-19 in France, she continued her involvement. Here, she distributes food in squats with another volunteer, going from squat to squat by car. Facing her, a woman with their children, who depend at least partially on food aid: which means experiencing food insecurity. Credit:a young woman from Albania – who got the refugee status – is volunteer in the Secours Populaire (food aid). During the first confinement due to the Covid-19 in France, she continued her involvement. Here, she distributes food in squats with another volunteer, going from squat to squat by car. Facing her, a woman with their children, who depend at least partially on food aid: which means experiencing food insecurity. Credit: Cécile Quillien
Travelling away from main roads and through narrow passages, the food bikes garner much attention. Credit: German Food2Gather team
At the destination, the bicycle trailer is converted into a kitchen stall. Credit: German F2Gather team
The bicycle trailers are tailored to fit all necessary cooking equipment and ingredients. Credit: German F2Gather team
The kitchen space inside the container is designed to be welcoming and easy to navigate. Credit: Über den Tellerrand
On its first tour, the container traced the route many people on the move take through Europe. Credit: Photograph: Über den Tellerrand
People cooking. Credit: Nick Polson
Hands of a person in a white shirt next to an empty glass and bowl. Credit Nick Polson
Empty glasses, food covered in tin foil and a sign on a table. Credit: Nick Polson
Feet of people sitting outside in the sunshine. Credit: Nick Polson
A person drinking. Credit Nick Polson
Kitchen with ingredients for a meal. Credit: Nick Polson
Ingredients for biryani with salmon. Credit: participant in Sunn Start case in Norway
Surplus table in Norway with surplus fruit and vegetables and smoothies during the Covid-19 pandemic. Credit Virginie Amilien
Boys eating food from surplus food they cooked during the Norwegian pilot with Kompass & CO. Credit: Clara J. Reich
Girls preparing salad together during the Norwegian pilot with the partner organisation Kompas & Co for the surplus table. Credit: Clara J. Reich
Surplus food such as tomatoes, yoghurt, mango, aspargus, kale, mushroom, bread, and potatoes arranged on a table. The picture was taken during the Norwegian pilot at a school during the surplus table. Credit: Clara J. Reich
Plate with samosas and salad made from surplus food during the Norwegian pilot with students and the partner Kompass & Co. Credit: Clara J. Reich
Students serving themselves with stew during the surplus table of the Norwegian pilot at a school in Oslo. Credit: Clara J. Reich
Being uprooted, leaving his country because he was threatened to death, a young man from Guinea is hosted in a house where he lives in the living-room which has been shared in two part, so he can get a minimum of intimacy. After a while living in the street, he can start to cook again. Here, cooking a “soupo guerto” which he learned with his mother since his childhood. A meal with “home flavours”, adapted to food availability, and tastes of his guests. Credit: Cécile Quillien
In a squat, in the city centre of Bordeaux. Dozens of men where living there, trying to build a “home” in this precarious place. Facing plural lacks, they have to cope with, to tinker, to use their agency. Here, plastic bottles are filled with still water are stocked, in order to get around the recurrent lack of water in the kitchen. In the microwave, an inhabitant cooks rice to save time and energy, as he considered this way of cooking as simplier. Credit: Cécile Quillien
The hidden part of the foodscapes: struggle around juridical paper for migrants’ agricultors workers. Credit: Chantal Crenn
Sahraouis asylum seeker becoming a merchant of so called “organic food” from Spain in the rural town of Ste-Foy-La-Grande. Credit: Chantal Crenn
The Râteleurs soup made in the public space in front of Les Resto du Coeur in Ste Foy. Credit: Chantal Crenn
Halal butchery during Christmas time in Sainte Foy-La-Grande a mixt between Muslim and Christian symbols. Credit: Chantal Crenn
Cooking in the encampment near the Tiburtina station. Credit: Giovanna Palutan, Donatella Schmidt
Lunch time at Centro Astalli soup kitchen in Rome before the pandemic (© Astalli Centre). Credit: Researcher (Giovanna Palutan)
Exhibition installation, pilot project in Padua. Credit: Alice Brombin, Donatella Schmidt
Sharing a Sudanese meal in a squat in Ventimiglia. Credit: Eloisa Pantano
Title : “A Food2Gather cooking workshop at school in French-speaking Belgium (Province of Liege)” A mother living at a reception center for asylum seekers prepared a pasta salad with the children at school during the Food2Gather Belgian team pilot activities. Credit: Mélanie Vivier (F2G PhD candidate)
Title : “L’alimenpédie enfantique” : the first draft of some pages of the encyclopaedia The title “L’alimenpédie enfantique” is based on a French wordplay between food and encyclopaedia (foodpaedia in english), and children and researchers. Children also created the word “enfantique” in french – used in this case instead of “enfantin” – that is an alternative to the word “childisch”. This title is the one that received the most votes from children among all the titles they proposed. It was decided to include all other titles as sub-headings or on the back cover to ensure that all children's choices were represented. You can see here some examples of draft pages on different food topics that you will find in the children book. These pages are based on the children’s productions and designed by a student named Naomé Desprez.
“L’alimenpédie enfantique : the little anthropologist’s Food Guide” This photo represents a book cover, and more precisely the one of an encyclopaedia (in progress) highlightening an anthropological approach to food and carried out with and for children of a kindergarden and a primary school in French-speaking Belgium (Province of Liege) by Mélanie and Élodie (researchers). Credit: Naomé Desprez
Title : “Lunch boxes at school in French-speaking Belgium” The picture shows the diversity of ingredienst used by parents for the children’s lunch : from sweet to salty and sometimes, spicy! During anthropological workshops organized by Mélanie and Élodie (researchers) with children, the latter learned how to reconsider what they eat at school and how they eat : do we all eat the same meals ? How do children eat at school in other border or distant countries ? Why is eating so important? Credit: Élodie Razy (F2G researcher)
Title : “Children at the foodmarket as anthropologists during Food2Gather workshops” Children learned how to be anthropologists by doing fieldwork at a foodmarket that Mélanie and Élodie (the researchers) had to improvise at school because of the covid constraints preventing us from leaving the school (French-speaking Belgium, Province of Liege). Credit: Mélanie Vivier (F2G PhD candidate)
Title : “A Food2Gather cupcake to share !” An albanease-german-belgian cupcake drawn by a child living at a reception center for asylum seekers in French-speaking Belgium (Province of Liege). Credit: Mélanie Vivier (F2G PhD candidate)
Title : “A ‘multicultural meal’ at school in French-speaking Belgium (Province of Liege)” In a class for foreign children at primary school, the muslim religion teacher organizes each year a “multicultural meal”. Each child has to bring some food from his or her home country to school to share a meal all together. Credit: Mélanie Vivier (F2G PhD student)
Title : “A Birthday party at a reception center for asylum seekers in French-speaking Belgium (Province of Liege)” Credit: Mélanie Vivier (F2G PhD candidate)
Roomates sharing the “Guinean meal” prepared by Tidiane, a young man from Guinea who is hosted by 4 other young people in the metropolis of Bordeaux. First when he still was asylum seeker – who are supposed to be hosted by the State – and since he received a negative answer, and is constructed as “illegal migrant”. Credit: Cécile Quillien
A man from Georgia practices urban fishing. Categorised as “illegal migrant” (without papers), he, with his family (his wife, their 2 children), largely depend on food aid networks. Practicing urban fishing is a mean to eat fresh fish which is not very present in the food aid networks, while getting the satisfaction of being partly “independent”, food speaking. Sarah Marchiset
Title : “Is this slice of omelette enough for my child?” The picture shows a child slice of omelette from the canteen at a reception center for asylum seekers in French-speaking Belgium (Province of Liege). A resident in asylum seeking situation took the picture and sent it to Mélanie (researcher) to protest against what the institution gives to them to feed their children. Credit: A photo taken by a person living in a reception center for asylum seekers in French-speaking Belgium
Title: “Cooking and eating together” A spaghetti bolognese meal cooked by Mélanie (researcher) with a Palestinian family in a reception center for asylum seekers in French-speaking Belgium (Province of Liege). The meal is eaten in the family room directly on the ground. The Arabic newspapers taken at the reception of the center by the family is used as a table. Credit: Mélanie Vivier (F2G PhD candidate)
Orient experience food in Venice. Credit: Caterina Zanatta Pivato
The gourmet cuisine at Peace ‘n’ Spice restaurant in Padova. Credit: Alice Brombin