61. Onion Portraits

A series of photographic portraits by Dan Higgins of people from Winooski.

"To pose with the onion is to participate in local lore; Its embrace is an affirmation of locality."

"...the sweetest bait of all is often an onion."

"Raw, sharp and multilayered, an onion can be bitter or sweet - a fitting metaphor for Higgins' adopted city, which has a long and sometimes tear-provoking history of sloughing off its desiccated outer layers in a continual quest to re-create itself."

"They have been lured to his lens by the absurd appeal of the onion, agreeing to be photographed in their homes or businesses surrounded by worldly possessions from their countries, both old and new."

Read an article here and here.

"They each held an onion, and the pungent bulbs were hand-tinted yellow in those photos that were black and white."

The Nickname of Winooski is Onion City.

"Winoskitegw is meaning “land of the wild onion"."