Feed the Planet: A Photographic Journey to the World's Food

 Join The Explorers Club and legendary photographer George Steinmetz on Monday, November 18th, as he shares pictures and stories from his ten-year project to document the sustainability of the global food supply, covering fieldwork in 27 states, 46 countries, and five oceans.

Do you know where your food comes from? To find out, George spent a decade documenting food production in more than 36 countries on 6 continents, 24 US states, and 5 oceans. In striking aerial images, he captures the massive scale of 21st-century agriculture that has sculpted 40 percent of the Earth’s surface. He explores the farming of staples like wheat and rice, the cultivation of vegetables and fruits, fishing and aquaculture, and meat production. He surveys traditional farming in diverse cultures, and he penetrates vast agribusinesses that fuel international trade. From Kansas wheat fields to a shrimp cocktail’s origins in India to cattle stations in Australia larger than some countries, Steinmetz tracks the foods we eat back to land and sea, field and factory. He takes us places that most of us never see, although our very lives depend on them.