ONE SMALL SEED MAGAZINE Issue #28 Digital 03 | Page 51

Photography: Tsuyoshi Ozawa

Tokyo-hailing Tsuyoshi Ozawa knows the
medium’s new found purpose all too well.
His work is known to challenge beliefs
and concepts of political and social life
– exactly what his Vegetable Weapons
project aimed to do. Shown in a 2012
group exhibition named On Photography,
Ozawa travelled around the world and
photographed women holding a weapon
made from the ingredients of a local dish.

After the ‘biodegradable machinery’ is
captured, it’s destroyed: in the form of
a jolly feast. This way Tsuyoshi not only
learned about the culinary experiences
of Asia, America, Europe, and Africa,
but taught people how stupid warfare
actually is. Although gun holders are rarely
hippies, decomposing weapons through
metabolism is certainly worth a thought.
If only turning them into smelly excrement
was that easy.