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Photographer Reimagines Local FruitCEFR A1
25 Dec 2025
Adapted from Janine Mendes-Franco, Global Voices • CC BY 3.0
Photo by Anton Acosta, Unsplash
Level A1 – BeginnerCEFR A1
2 min
81 words
- Marlon Rouse is a photographer from Trinidad and Tobago.
- He started his career in print media and news.
- He now makes a series of close photographs of local fruit.
- The pictures show fruit like scientific specimens and organisms.
- Rouse uses light, scale and framing to change how fruit look.
- Some images feel clinical, others feel sad or strange.
- He shares the images online on social media and his website.
- He wants to keep making pictures and hopes to publish a book.
Difficult words
- photographer — a person who takes pictures
- specimen — a sample used for study or examplespecimens
- organism — a living animal or plantorganisms
- framing — the way a picture is cut or shown
- clinical — calm, scientific, or medical in style
- publish — to make a book or article public
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Discussion questions
- Do you like photos of fruit?
- Do you share pictures online?
- Would you like a book of photos?
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