This project involves the entire 180°C team (Thermostat 6 publishing house) and photographer Matthieu Paley.

1 - Matthieu (the photographer...)

In 1999, after studying photography in New York City, Matthieu Paley moved to Northern Pakistan, in a valley bordered by the Himalaya, Karakorum, Hindukush and Pamir. He roamed across these remote areas for over four years. Passionate about these far-off mountainous regions located on the edge of Central Asia, he focused on the topic of isolation in geopolitically sensitive areas. His photo reports have led him all around the world, from Tajikistan to Bhutan, and from Mongolia to Nauru, the world’s smallest republic, in South Pacific.

Over the past decade, his long-term reports have been published in GEO, The National Geographic, Time, Vanity Fair, Le Figaro Magazine and Le Monde.

Since 2012, he has been one three French photographers contributing to National Geographic US. This year, he contributed to the “The Evolution of diet – We are what we eat” project, which sent him around the world (Crete, Tanzania, Bolivia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Greenland) to document different diets. His work will be exhibited at the 2015 photo festival of La Gacilly. It will also air on National Geographic Live on April 15, 2015.

His work is regularly exhibited in Hong Kong, Paris, Munich, and Istanbul, and his multimedia presentations have been projected in many festivals, such as the Perpignan Photojournalism festival, and the Banff Mountain Festival in Canada.

He is also the 2014 recipient of the Paris National Museum of Natural History Photo Prize with his project “The last of the first”. This grant will allow him to go back to Tanzania in 2015 to broaden his knowledge of the Hadza people, the last hunter-gatherers of Africa. His work on the Hadza of Tanzania,

“The last of the first”, will be exhibited from October 2015 to March 2016 in the Museum

Gardens.

Website and blog: www.paleyphoto.com

Facebook: www.facebook.com/Paleyphoto

Instagram: instagram.com/paleyphoto

2 - 180°C and Thermostat 6 (the brave publishers...)

180°C is a collective, participative yet personal venture. Halfway between a magazine and a book, 180°C is the first culinary mook entirely dedicated to cooking and cooks.

Eric Fénot was inspired to create this mook and formed a team of nine founders who brought their experience and expertise to the table. They are what drives our publication. In spring 2014, eight keen new members joined our team to take this adventure to the next level.

No advertisers. Fully independent. 100% funded by our readers and the team.

All our efforts are directed towards making 180°C a high quality publication that remains affordable. We have designed this sincere, generous mook for refined, curious epicurean readers who love authenticity. Nothing is left to chance, from paper selection to image processing and even subject and contributor choice.

In 2015, we want to take our work to the next level and become a true publishing house that gets involved in "personal favourite" projects on cuisine and food - as always with the same high content and processing standards.

Men & Food is our first big "personal favourite"! Thanks to Matthieu's quality of work and the relationship we have built with him since 180°C started, we are setting out on this adventure together. Matthieu's photos have regularly appeared in our publication since its second edition but now we want to take the next step and create this book.

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