Submission

The tables of my youth were compact, plastic, and single-serve. Meant to be folded and put away, then quickly reassembled in time for dinner and prime time television. Our dining room table came complete with a leaf to fit guests into holiday feasts. But these occasions were rare in our smalltown American home, where a single working mom and her only child alternated between TV dinners and homecooked stews or spaghetti. The ongoing photographic series At Table arose from a desire to add people to these tables, to cultivate relationships across cultures and borders, to document the in-between when ordinary moments come alive through gestures and expressions, food and drink. In homes, restaurants and bars scattered throughout the globe, I have used the messy contingency of plates, silverware, bottles and placemats to frame candid moments from a consistent, engaged perspective, revealing a multicultural narrative that converges and collides in a shared, familiar place – the table.