Every Three Seconds
Germany
2020
Focused on Denmark, «Every three seconds» is a photo essay on pork meat. Deliberately provocative, it crudely shows the excesses of the food-processing industry and denounces mass consumption.
“Denmark is one of the biggest pork meat exporters in the world. In 2018, the country bred 32 millions pigs in 5000 pig farms. In 2019, production is expected to increase and, some believe, will be double the yearly production, reaching the magic number of 50. These figures suggest that there are about six times as many pigs as Danes in Denmark.”
Where does all this meat come from and where will it end up? Felix von der Osten strives to show how pork is part of Danish everyday life, to the point of establishing a cultural connection with the meat itself.
With the support of Goethe Institut
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About the artist
Felix von der Osten was born in 1989 and lives in Cologne. A documentary photographer and videographer, he is interested in social and cultural issues, which he documents through film photography and some old processes such as collecting. A Danish School of Media and Journalism alumnus, he graduated from the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Germany.