Claire Rosen's striking series The Fantastical Feasts was highlighted recently by PhotoVogue. Read below:
"We continue our journey to introduce the incredible artists featured in this year’s PhotoVogue Festival, “The Tree of Life: a Love Letter to Nature,” from March 6th to 9th, 2025, at @basemilano.
The project “The Fantastical Feasts” by Claire Rosen explores the banquet as a defining feature of culture, evoking images of lavish presentations and abundant food. This whimsical photographic series features anthropomorphized animals around elaborate banquet tables, inspired by Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper” and Pierre Subleyras’ “The Feast in the House of Simon,” with intricate spreads reminiscent of 17th-century Dutch still-life paintings. The series includes a diverse range of creatures, from elephants and honeybees to exotic animals encountered during ten years of travel, such as goats from Bosnia and sloths from the Amazon. By placing animals in human settings, the series encourages viewers to reflect on our relationship with animals, suggesting that we might have more in common with them than we admit and inviting us to consider them more humanely."
