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Looking at recently released photography books this week…. The amber toned images reflect that the cultivation of land was a manual process that linked the farmer directly to the soil. In narrating their own stories, the farmers and chefs share their philosophy about what it means to grow and live organically and sustainably. It is about preserving an agricultural tradition that will safeguard farmland for future generations.

Francesco Mastalia has traveled the world, photographing tribal, religious, spiritual, and indigenous peoples. His book Dreads, published by Workman Artisan, is a photo documentary on the history of dreadlocks. The book is now in its seventh printing, sold worldwide, and includes an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker.

Francesco Mastalia's new book Organic: Farmers and Chefs of the Hudson Valley is first and foremost an art book of photographs printed on museum-quality paper.

Joan Dye Gussow , PhD, is known as the matriarch of the organic, locavore, small-farm movement. She makes her home in the Hudson Valley. The Hudson Valley, New York has become an epicenter for the local, organic, sustainable food movement. With its rich agricultural land, the awareness for sustainable living, and the growing demand for local, organic food, the farm-to-table, locavore movement has become a way of life in the Hudson Valley.

Organic spotlights the Hudson Valley as a region at the forefront of this movement and features the portraits and words of the dedicated farmers who are committed to growing and producing food using sustainable methods, and the chefs who echo their beliefs and pay homage to the food they produce. All content on this site cannot be reproduced without linking to Lenscratch and without the permission of the photographer.

Buy Organic: Farmers and Chefs of The Hudson Valley By Francesco Mastalia.

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