William Mullan works in a chocolate factory, where he learned product photography. One day while eating a Pink Pearl apple, he thought it would be fun to take a portrait of it. One picture led to many, many more, and over the course of three years, he visited orchards and coordinated shipments of fruit from across the country, and spent evenings photographing apples after work. The project culminated in a book called Odd Apples, published by Hatje Cantz in 2021. William continues to photograph “odd” apples and orchard life.
“Odd Apples” is a celebration of the apple, a humble fruit whose unique wonders and idiosyncrasies are often overlooked and flattened by commercialization and commodification. The project documents the unusual, stunning, and strange world of apples outside of the grocery store.
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