HealthMakers Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio, authors of Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, tell aspiring photographers to be curiosity and grow thick skins. In this video, they talk about the challenges new photographers face.
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The focus now through all of our books is looking at typical people. We don't talk to celebrities for the most part, we just want to talk to real people who are sort of living a real life as opposed to celluloid one. Actors certainly they have their own private lives but that is not the part you really see, you see the celebrity in them and the star.
I'm sure Ben Affleck has a wonderful life of the mind, and his own. He's a writer and does all these wonderful things so we have nothing against celebrities, but we prefer to cover average people. I think that was really the beauty of material- And it was a really challenge to see if you could make average interesting because the challenge of women material world too is where women photographers and interviewers went back and talked to just these average women and listened to them, and made pictures of their daily life which is so beautiful, it was a really beautiful book.
Peter Menzel is a freelance photojournalist who covers science and the environment. He co-authored "Hungry Planet: What the World Eats" with his wife Faith D’Aluisio. They discuss the impact of culture on diet and obesity.
