This project gives a small insight into my series shooting across Mama Africa and especially my love of food and my mantra “Traveling made me fatTER”, which is why many of my series projects have revolved around food and its production. Africans (that includes everybody from the motherland, no matter how long ago they left or were taken) regard food as LIFE and the fact that agriculture contributes to 30-60% of the GDP of most African states and 30% in exports trade, it is no joking matter.
Rico is not your fine-art educated type; there's no waffle and no literary enigma machines like dictionaries or thesauruses required to decode him. Yes, he will drop the occasional f-bomb. He is all visual, direct in speech, has a partial filter, and, if we're being honest, he is not keen on writing 'captions,' 'artist statements,' 'descriptions,' or 'bios.' These are the very things that tend to alienate many artists like himself, who aren’t silver-tongued wordsmiths with too much to say. So, we will keep it short and sweet: Rico takes photos. The End!
