Back in the saddle folks!

After graduating from California State university, Chico last May of 2018 with my BA in Anthropology, we are back at it! We have been doing some shooting over the last year but mainly I have been gearing up for our new project! In addition to portraits and event photography, E. Henderson Photography is stepping into the world of video. As a long time passion of mine, shooting video seems so very natural as my next step in this life's adventures.

The Project: Cooking with Ghosts

This hybrid culinary adventure meets anthropological study, is focused on how people connect to their ancestors via food. We begin filming this Summer and look forward to seeing this connection in a diverse range of locations, cultures and age groups.

The recipes from the sessions will be published in the book that I am writing about this connection. Known in the anthropology world as an ethnography, the book explores the many ways people have adapted to past on or begin connections into the past and the future by sharing recipes, breaking bread, and enjoying edible portions of their holidays and celebrations.

This also applies to the material culture, otherwise know as dishes. My story includes the many cast iron skillets I use here on the ranch that were used by his ancestors. Each time I simmer my creamy enchilada sauce in one of those skillets I can feel his families ghosts there with me. That's really where the idea sprung from. I want to know how your grandmas vintage pyrex connects you with your past and her memory, or you grandpas knife, your great aunts dutch oven, and so on and so forth.

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How can I participate?

We would love to shoot with you and your family! We are seeking a multigenerational family group (whenever possible) that we will film cooking their families famous recipes. We found in our pre-interviews that sometimes there is no connection to the past but that people have forged their own path and are handing down recipes they created or found to their kids and grand kids. Diversity in these connections is epic and what makes this project so fun!

Please contact us to schedule your session beginning in August 2019. You can follow us on Instagram  @cookingwithghosts for updates and connections to this project and the blast we are about to have exploring it!  Erin

Contact us:
E-mail: cookingwithghosts@gmail.com
Instagram:@cookingwithghosts