Williamsburg, New York, 2010

Eight images from the ongoing series “Fetal Position and Drool” will be published in Foam Magazine’s “The Great All Encompassing Bed” book, coming out later this summer.

Foam Magazine is an international photography magazine that is published quarterly by Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam and Vandejong.

The inclusion on the publication of “Fetal Position and Drool” came as a surprise but a welcoming one never the less.

Click here to see more images and read about “Fetal Position and Drool.”

Sheep Seller in Yellow, Kamil, Morocco, 2010

NYC Chef Marcus Samuelsson featured images from Kamil, Morocco portion of Wok the Dog on his blog, Food and People. Check it out here.

Food and People By Charlie Grosso

A friend took me out to a small town called Kamil, Morocco just before Eid Al-Adha, Feast of Abraham. It was market day and there were sheep everywhere.

Every family buys a sheep and sacrifices it for God during Eid and sheep is nearly all you see. They put strap the sheep down on top of buses, in the trucks of cars, push it home in wheel barrels or simply throw it over their shoulder and haul it out. Not only were there live sheep everywhere, the butchers were selling lamb and mutton as well. The one chicken vendor was almost a novelty in amidst the frenzy of sheep-centric Eid.

President Obama was recently in NYC and dined at Red Rooster, Chef Marcus Samuelsson’s latest venture in Harlem.

Images from Wok The Dog series is regularly featured in Marcus Samuelsson’s Blog, Food and People.

In a silly game of 6 Degrees of Separation, Ms Grosso is now only 2 degrees away from President Obama!

Fez, Morocco – City of Fairy Tales is the most recent entry.  To see more here:

A brief Except from the Blog Entry:

The sand colored city of Fez, Morocco appears to be a city out of fairy tales. The city seems like it never quiet entered the modern century much less the 21st. There are still vendors selling coal. And one butcher shop in the medina that sold Camel.

I’ve always thought that Camels were expensive and highly prized by the Arabs and seeing the camel head outside the butcher shop with the camel hoofs on the ground was certainly a shock.

I wish I spoke French or Arabic better to ask about the taste, cost and selling of camels in Arab culture.

March 18, 2011

A feature article for Le Soir, a French Moroccan Publication.

Here is a rough translation, or you can download a pdf and read the original French here:

In line with Sebastiao Salgado and other great documentary photographers, Charlie Grosso presents “Wok the Dog” (pun between dog walking and cooking) worldwide.

You may cross without paying attention, confusing it with an off the beaten tourist classics. You may have noticed that it uses strange devices that look more like those found in the window of every shop in the world.

Charlie Grosso also uses a digital camera, but almost apologetically, preferring the accompanying film cameras for years. And especially if you cross, do not ask him to explain this choice, nor the color or black and white. It is a matter of instinct. In a world where everything moves very quickly, this silver household surprise that the immediacy of electronic killed. It was not until the return to base to find the images that were taken, with the risk they are veiled, or rather disappointing that they revive the magic of the moment of their catch.

For twelve years, Charlie Grosso, American of Taiwanese origin moves from country to country, according to her finances and desires with a special quest: capturing the soul of the sites visited through a universal institution: the market.

This world tour has a little special effort to date in 20 countries and 74 cities.

March 4, after resuming its headquarters in New York, developed and selected photos from her last journey that has led Taiwan from Morocco through Egypt and Jordan, Charlie has opened an exhibit colorful the “House Project” is expected to last six weeks before sailing to Barcelona, ​​Cairo, Amman, Kuala Lumpur and other cities whose name is as much a dream.

In Morocco, despite unfavorable weather and the proximity of Eid Al Adha she made several calls at the markets in town or in open country.

The pictures placed side by side, show a world, after all, fairly homogeneous. Whether in Asia, Europe or the Mediterranean, the actions are similar and since they are not supposed to be a representation of anything, they provide an interesting natural.

The accident of geography has meant that most of her last trip led our “globe-trotter” in a whole country of Muslim culture. Among them, she said, Morocco was the place most remarkable and attractive, highlighting his surprise to see sheep everywhere, Eid Al Adha oblige.A straddles documentary work and artistic research work is, above all, a look at the life and death and the efforts of all people to feed and continue to live.

Charlie Grosso, Director of Baang + Burne Contemporary spoke at the Emerging Collectors Symposium for Finch & Ada along with Marisa Sage from “Like the Spice” Gallery and Independent Curator Savannah Spirit.

The panel is geared towards the Emerging Art Collectors to remove the intimation out of art buying and start collecting.

The event is part of Finch & Ada’s current exhibit, The Pleasure is All Mine, a group show featuring work that is about pleasure, happiness and joy.

If you miss the event and would like to learn more about collecting art, Baang + Burne Contemporary has a free E-Book “Art Buying for Emerging Collectors” available to down load on their website.

NYC Chef Marcus Samuelsson featured images from Casablanca, Morocco portion of Wok the Dog on his blog, Food and People. Check it out here.

Food and People By Charlie Grosso

“Wok the Dog” is a long term photographic series that examines the commerce of meat, the market place around the world. Since 2004, I have photographed markets in 20 countries and 74 cities. For more international adventures, read my past Food and People posts about Luxor and Masaya.

Humphrey Bogart might be the only association you have with Casablanca, Morocco. Yet Bogart is absent from the markets of Casablanca. What is abundant is the a sense of poetry.

The French influence is unmistakable. It telegraphs itself throughout the market and I am surprised by its appearance. Take stall number 14 for example. I feel like I am looking a rendering of Paris in early 1900s, yet it is Casablanca in modern day. A little bit of the old along with a little bit of the new comes together in the markets of Casablanca.

For more images from Wok the Dog and information, visit: www.charliegrosso.com