Exploding Food Photography by Alan Sailer

working in his garage with a home built air-gap flash rather than any special camera, american artist alan sailer captures the explosion of foods and other objects when impacted at high speeds. 

To take his photographs, sailer uses a micro-second guided spark flash, which he built himself based on an article from a 1974 volume of scientific american and information found online. To create the explosions, he uses a PVC or copper cannon to launch pellets and marbles at his subjects.