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Jimmy Fike - EDIBLE PLANTS: A Photographic Survey of Edible Botanicals
Jimmy Fike is on BIDS discussing his new book, "EDIBLE PLANTS: A Photographic Survey of the Wild Edible Botanicals of North America," Jimmy fike is an acclaimed artist and nature enthusiast.
For more than a decade, artist Jimmy Fike traveled across the continental United States in an epic effort to photograph wild edible flora. Edible Plants: A Photographic Survey of the Wild Edible Botanicals of North America is the culmination of that journey, featuring over 100 photographs that Fike has selectively colorized to highlight the comestible part of the plant, featured along with relevant information about each one's (fascinating) uses. This amazing, forthcoming collection was recently showcased in a preview at Atlas Obscura.
Jimmy W. Fike was born in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1970. Even at an early age he showed a penchant for art and a love for exploring nature. He earned a BA in Art from Auburn University and an MFA in Photography from the Cranbrook Academy of Art. Fike's photographs have been exhibited extensively across the United States, published in the Washington Post, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Mother Jones, and can be found in the permanent collections of the George Eastman Museum, St. Lawrence University, and the University of Alabama Birmingham. He now lives in Phoenix, Arizona, with his daughter Isobel and dogs Sallie and Scrappy, where he works as Residential Art Faculty at Estrella Mountain Community College.
This is Jimmy's inaugural visit to the Break It Down Show with Pete A Turner
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