This onion collection showcases variety in humble root vegetables—red, white, yellow onions and related alliums captured to reveal papery skins, layered structures, and color diversity. The work demonstrates how "the dirt and growing living plants helps to settle his soul," elevating everyday kitchen staples into objects of contemplation. The scanner captures onions' architectural forms and subtle color variations, proving that environmental consciousness and aesthetic beauty coexist in simple homegrown vegetables that represent sustainable living and food security.
"We eat vegetables from our garden”. When Zoltan's gardening, He grows things and gain knowledge by spending time outside - which helps keep his grounded. He loves to garden every day: there is something about the dirt and growing living plants that helps to settle his soul and helps his feel alive. He learned that what we need in our lives is in nature, right in front of us. These still-life images are from his “Vegetables from my Garden” series, which focuses on how gardens help the environment by reducing air and noise pollution, filtering the groundwater, and providing better food on our tables. It’s dedicated to the natural living in the world. Every still-life picture features mushrooms or tomatoes, onions, and salads. The series was made using scenography, for which he used a flatbread scanner to create the images, combined with digital photography. He tries to keep his photography as pure as possible without post-processing. One of the most exciting things about scenography is that it is a new way to see the things around us. It's not exactly photography, but it reproduces reality with extraordinary precision!
Onion varieties celebrate humble root vegetables—scanner study revealing architectural beauty in everyday garden staples. Archival pigment print from Vegetables from my Garden. Available at The Art Design Project, Miami Beach.
Onion Varieties Collection - Photography Still life Vegetable, Zoltan Gerliczki
Vegetables from my garden #8, 2021
From the Vegetables from my garden series
Archival pigment print
Limited Edition.
Unframed
Gerliczki was born in Nyíregyházain, Hungary in 1971 and he was raised in a Budapest orphanage during Hungary’s Communist regime. He is a filmmaker, painter, and computer artist who currently works as a graphic designer in Antwerp, London, Paris, and New York. As a graphic designer and post-production artist he has been involved with various publications including Elle Décor, House Beautiful, Zoo Magazine, Io Donna, Departures (US), Cosmopolitan (France), Paris Review, Travel & Leisure, and The Guardian UK, among others. Commercially, he has also been involved with Thierry Mugler, Christian Lacroix, Illy, and L’Artisan Parfumeur Paris, among others.

















