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Winter salad
Photo by Nancy Hanson

The politics of Food exhibition opening  talk by Nancy Hanson, farmer and manager of Hampshire’s CSA, followed by a reception from 4 to 6p.m.

slaughterhouse worker
Photo by Jerome Liebling

Hampshire College’s Main Gallery, located in the campus center, presents The Politics of Food.  The exhibit features new work by Bill Brayton, Kane Stewart, and Rebekah Trieschman, as well as some familiar and not-so-familiar photographs by Hampshire Professsor Emeritus Jerome Liebling.  Also, recent Hampshire graduate Peter Moskovitz will exhibit photographs from his Division III project, Beyond Corn, documenting factory farming of Big Corn in America; and Nancy Hanson, farmer and manager of Hampshire’s CSA, is featured in When Tillage Begins, an exhibit of photographs and actual harvest produce from the CSA fields at the Hampshire College Farm Center.

Food politics in the 21st century encompasses a myriad of issues, including food safety and nutrition, the environment, energy policies, health care, technology, population growth, animal welfare, and genetic engineering, among many. Jerome Liebling’s documentary photographs of slaughterhouse workers in Minneapolis are widely recognized and hailed for how powerfully they express the conflicting emotions that many feel over the way meat is processed.  Liebling’s iconic “Slaughterhouse Worker” photograph is among the holdings in Hampshire’s permanent collection and is included here in the Hampshire exhibit.  There is also a Liebling triptych, “House of Charity, Minneapolis, 1960,” which will be exhibited for the first time in a gallery setting.

Fully 97% of all food consumed in the United States comes from the food monoculture that is powered by cheap fossil fuel.  Peter Moskowitz’s project on the factory farming of corn, Beyond Corn, illustrates this point; and Nancy Hanson’s images of farm produce introduce the alternative of the other 3% of locally-grown agriculture.  All of Hanson’s images are culled from her extensive archive of photographs that document her work as a farmer over the last eleven years at the Hampshire College Farm Center.

There will be an opening reception on Wednesday, September 15th, from 4-6 p.m., preceded by a gallery talk with Nancy Hanson at 3 p.m.