Gabriele Galimberti: In Her Kitchen

With "In Her Kitchen", Italian photographer Gabriele Galimberti (*1977) undertakes a photographic and culinary journey through the kitchens of the world. Created on the occasion of a reportage about couchsurfing, he photographed grandmothers in their home kitchens and with their favorite dishes. The portraits document the universal language of food, family and hospitality in a very personal way. Wherever Galimberti stayed as a couchsurfer, he asked his hosts to meet his grandmother, cook and eat with them. These encounters not only became approaches to sometimes unfamiliar ingredients and preparation techniques of the respective country's cuisine, but also reveal private insights into the high value that cooking can have as an expression of cultural identity, tradition and love - no matter in which country of the world one sits down to eat. Stylistically, Galimberti's photographs follow an idiosyncratic pictorial concept of portraits and accurately arranged objects. The focus is always on people, so that his photographs sensitively show the diverse spectrum of everyday human life.