Let the festive feasting begin! This image of uninhibited indulgence was taken by the British photographer Maisie Cousins, who featured in Elephant Issue 36 as she prepared to take over the Elephant West space. “The universal language of food is just so fascinating to me, along with how it brings people together, regardless of class and everything,” she told Charlotte Jansen of her fondness for photographing food and the act of eating. “Wherever you go in the world, in canteens, there’s always the photographs of the food in a lightbox... I like that idea that we eat with our eyes first and that we choose what we want by looking at it.”
