Photo of a Potato Sold for over $1 Million

Now this should put some smiles on farmers! According to the Independent, a European businessman purchased this photo of a potato for 1 million euros ($1,086,950). Of course, it’s probably not the potato itself that made the photograph so pricey. It was taken by acclaimed photographer Kevin Abosch in 2010 and is one of three versions of the print in existence.

Abosch says it’s the most expensive photo he’s ever sold, and most of his work typically goes for around $280,000. So if any photo of a potato is ever going to be worth $1 million, it seems this would be the one. To some, this maybe an absurd price to pay for a photo of a potato but myself being a frontier encouraging Africans to enter the agribusiness, I think it’s awesome.