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𝗜 𝗡 𝗦 𝗖 𝗧 𝗦 is an ongoing documentary project exploring the potential of insect farming as a local response to global environmental and social challenges. Through a hybrid body of work - combining documentary photography, microscope images, audio interviews, and video - I have been researching how insect farming, a practice rooted in both ancestral knowledge and cutting-edge research, promotes more equitable and regenerative agricultural models. Farming insects could make smallholder farmers less dependent on expensive - and environmentally costly - imported products: a pathway to community sovereignty. Additionally in urban industrial contexts insect farming is an emerging sector handling the increasing amount of organic waste, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and mitigating our global environmental impact. The photographs were taken in research centers, farms, communities and companies in Europe (The Netherlands, France, Spain, Italy, Portugal), Colombia, Thailand, Malaysia and in U.S. (California and Texas). 𝗜 𝗡 𝗦 𝗖 𝗧 𝗦 will culminate in a photobook that charts the history of our perceptions of – and relationships with – insects.