Malghan creates his photos by shining different colored lights through thin slices of fruits and vegetables onto light-sensitive paper. The result is a photograph of the colored shadow created. And these images aren't easily recognized as any food you've ever eaten. By enlarging the images and distorting the colors, Malghan makes these familiar foods into subjects no longer recognizable. It's the uncanny feeling of removing familiarity that Malghan says allows the viewer to be removed from their previous relationship with the food. He says that such distance "makes you realize how little we know about stuff."
He's also, apparently, experimented with this same process for deli meats.
You can find his portfolio at http://www.ajaymalghanphotography.com/
