Have you ever wondered where your food comes from?
How are tomatoes grown in Spain in the middle of winter? How is salmon produced so cheaply?
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The Salmon and the Tomato explores the impacts of two supermarket staples to ask
what is the real cost of our food, and who pays?
Through in-depth investigations, we follow salmon and tomatoes' journeys across continents,
revealing how distant, intensive food production systems,
labour practices, and environmental pressures are linked to the food we eat.
Come with us to investigate the hidden consequences, global dependencies, and
inequalities that ordinary products carry across the world.
The Salmon and the Tomato is an interdisciplinary, cross-media project that combines investigative journalism, scientific research, photography, and storytelling to map the global journeys of two distinct foods. Using fieldwork, open data, and multimedia documentation, the project traces the social, ecological, and economic systems that connect distant farms, processing sites, and markets. It reveals the scale and complexity of modern supply chains, highlighting hidden labour, environmental pressures, and systemic inequalities. Through interactive visualisations, photoessays, and short films, the project uncovers the far-reaching impacts of everyday consumption and encourages deeper understanding of global food systems.
Take a journey to find out more about the linkages between salmon farming and tomato horticulture
