richard Is it me, or is that John Hurt’s lovely face in a piece of his own salami? It’s either a minor miracle, a vanity project, or the designer working on the ‘What’s in your basket?’ feature in this Sunday’s ‘Observer Food Monthly’ was a bit bored and decided to counterbalance Dr John Briffa’s usual pessimistic analysis with a little light Photoshop work. If you have the OFM close to hand, could you confirm that this isn’t just a weird printing anomaly in our particular copy?
The ghostly Salami face has been haunting me since Sunday. i can’t get it out of my mind. Why is it there? What does it mean? Is salami with a face more or less healthy than salami without a face?
So glad it wasn’t an apparition!
Definitely not just you. I scoured the whole magazine looking for a competition that called for you to find a face in a salami slice…
Alas, no such competition was found.
I emailed Food Monthly when I noticed, and they told me this was the first they had heard of it, and that on closer analysis it was a ‘quiet’ joke that the photographer often plays..
Thanks for that porterhouse.
I love the expression ‘quiet joke’
Now I’ll have to go through back issues of OFM to discover other examples of the photographers handywork.
R