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Artist Name Signature Photography Awards 2009
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" Still life with Nike Cucumber " by Signature Photography Awards 2009

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  • Title: Still life with Nike Cucumber
  • Size: 400cm x 50cm
  • Price:£ 800
  • Media: Photography
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Name: Cheng Ting Ting
University: University of Westminster
Course: MA photographic studies
Date of Graduation: Sep, 2009

Category: Fashion and Still Life

Image Title: Still life with Nike cucumber
Format & Equipment: medium format 6x7 Fuji film, Mamiya RB67
Presentation details, framing style/dimension cm:
classic wooden frame (usually are used in still life painting), 40cm x 50cm

The starting point of this project was about the fetishism of commodities. It is an illusion to overrate the product, to enchant people to buy it.

Here, the artist focuses on the power of brand to represent the commodity fetishism. In our everyday life, we can find a bike from Hermes which cost £2300, and a tennis-racket from CHANEL cost £450, what’s the difference between these products and the others?

Cucumber, as a natural product, without artificiality, do people believe that the cucumber is better than others? This happens in our everyday life, with or without our awareness of it.