The Collection Collector #15: Food we ate in Europe

My boyfriend and I recently studied in Europe, and we decided to collect photos of some of the food we ate at home and also when we traveled. The point was to make the photos look really overexposed and almost gross.

From top to bottom: greasy sausage from Prague; chips bought in a Amsterdam flea market; Bagel bought on Beer's birthday in Amsterdam; sausages and meatballs barbecued in Vondel park in Amsterdam; wasabi cheese from Amsterdam; noodles and vegetables topped with an egg from Gut and Gunstig Germany; Croissant and black coffee after a night out in Antwerp (thank you Cornel); Moltaschen in Germany bought at Marktkauf; South African style pancakes made in Tuebingen; Couscous and vegetables in Innsbruck (thank you Gerko and Katja); Gut & Gunstig Apfelstrudel 'made' in Germany; Gut & Gunstig Jalapeno poppers (shared with Kiki) ; Gut & Gunstig nasi goreng; a hearty breakfast, in the days when we still ate meat; cherries from Prague, which we ate on the bus trip home.

The Collection Collector #14:Museum Hracek (Toy museum) in Prague

 Collector: Ivan Steiger

Collection: toy museum in Prague, Czech Republic

A collection of old European and American toys belonging to the family collection of Ivan Steiger, cartoonist and film maker.

The Collection Collector #13: SIN CITY graphic novel collection

Collector: Jan Svitil 

From: Czech Republic

Collection: SIN CITY graphic novels

-Collecting Antwerp-

The Collection Collector #12: U2 Collection

Collection: U2 CDs, books, DVDs, concerts tickets etc.

Collector: Bertus Snyman

Reason for collecting:

"I happened to be visiting my older brother’s friend when I saw he had a copy of U2’s The Joshua Tree. I had heard some of the songs on it before and knew that it was quite a famous album, but that was all. He allowed me to take it home for a week or two and that was it for me. I was hooked. From that point onwards I saved up my pocket money and every second month I would go out and buy a new U2 album. Pretty soon I started buying DVDs and then even my friends started chipping in by giving me U2 books for my birthday.

Why do I like them? I don’t really know why, but I guess it has something to do with that old cliché that you can “relate to their music”. That is, anybody can listen to one of their songs and analyse the lyrics and say this or that about it. But with U2 I always felt I knew why they wrote those songs in the first place."

The Collection Collecor #11: Crosses

The Collector: Wilna Adriaanse

The Collection: Crosses

Reason for collecting: 'Although I have always been fascinated by the form of the cross, I never decided to become a collector. For many years it was only the bronze one from Mexico. And then a friend gave me another one and before long there were a little group of crosses. And from there on many more found their way - from all over the world- to my wall. I have but one pre-requisite: I am not allowed to buy any for myself. I do however has made myself a pewter one.

Maybe the following quote is true for all collectors: "Collecting is the only socially commendable form of greed!" '