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Melanie Dunea has another genre bending project.
The award-winning photographer and Mood Studios founder, whose career spanned portrait, fashion and food photography, merge all of their previous topics on one. The volume is called “Amuse Bouche” and contains models in various delicacies that have been manufactured and styled as clothing.
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The book, which was limited to 500 copies – 250 for two separate colors and cover – made his debut on Monday for 295 US dollars on the Dunea website.
“I call this a” book “in quotations because there are only 64 pages,” said Dunea across the band, which is printed like a cocktail menu. “It actually looks like they are opening something nice at Chez Dunea.”
On the menu, male models are in bikinis of sewn olives, squid chains and much more.
“I have a great tailor that I asked:” Hey, have you ever sewed a few fish together to get a stole? “She said and noticed that models had to go away with her goods.” It is this mixture of spontaneity and joy, and I wanted everyone to be on board. “
The self -published project took a few months to negotiate and shoot. “It took a few months in the most delightful way, and we had 21 for the shoot itself,” she said, adding that the inventions “from shrimp to caviar to crème fraîche, with which we pretend to be shaved.”
For Dunea, the idea was to bring their creativity beyond the borders of certain genres. “In this case, it is about crossing these limits,” they shoot portraits, they cannot shoot fashion “or” they shoot and chefs, they have to shoot, “she said.
She also made a new medium after painting some of the interstitial pages between photos. “I press the rules, I interviewed. Why can’t a book be? Why can’t a woman wear in an inkfish on her neck? Why can’t anyone who is 90 years old can’t be in a fashion book?
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