A special selection of of cinemagraphs from the popular Last Bites series. All cinemagraphs by photographer Emma Lee and assistant Lizzie Mayson, animated by Mateusz Karpow, from an idea by Rachel Vere.
We launched Last Bites in April of this year, keen to know what chefs, cooks and food writers would choose for their final meal. We didn’t set out to strike a maudlin tone, but rather for it to be a celebration of all their lives spent eating, drinking and cooking.
Most of the last meals we’ve featured so far are at once comforting and a treat - they straddle the familiar and the outrageously hedonistic - and, without exception, involve the congregation of the subject’s dearest family and friends. Despite the eerie photo brief for Last Bites - a set table absent of people - the interviews have hammered home that the essence of enjoying a meal is, of course, the people you have it with.
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