Just in time for lunch, a post about eating. I was listening to This American Life this morning on my iPod and heard a great story about Catherine Chalmers, a photographer in SoHo who photographs insects and animals in her apartment. She uses a macro lens to observe their daily lives which mostly consists of eating and mating. Among the subjects of her photographs are: Praying Mantises mating and finishing with the female devouring the male; Mantises eating caterpillars full of leaves and tomatoes; frogs eating mantises; snakes eating mice; and spiders mating for hours and hours.

Chalmers has a book called Food Chain that displays her photographs.

Here are some sites that showcase her work:
Corcoran, Artscenecal, CocaSeattle.

Click below to see some of her photos.