Food for Thought

Eating is a very important aspect of our everyday lives and what we choose to and choose not to eat are the decisions that we make for different reasons. Very often the diet which we are brought up with is the one we stick with but it is becoming more popular to explore diets different than our own. Unfortunately, people who practice diets different to our own are often victims of stereotyping and discriminating because of it. 

This project explores five main diets; omnivorous, vegetarian, vegan, pescetarian and paleo and aims to show that despite them all being so different, most of the food that they involve links them all together. What I hope this project does is to make the viewers more open minded to find out more about diets different than their own and perhaps even trying the foods that they involve, too.

- Artist statement

These are my final photographs for my latest and last university project. Since starting it back in January, I have changed my ideas so many times but I am quite happy with where it ended up. After exploring a few different photography genres in this project, it hit me that portraiture is what I enjoy most which is why my food based project has ended up including people. 

The order of the photographs is based on a survey I did a few months ago which included all of 50 people and asked a few questions about their everyday diets. I have counted the amount of omnivorous, vegetarians, vegans, pescetarians and paleo dieters and that's where the order comes from. I didn't want to include foods that are stereotypes of a certain diets to show what else these diets consist of. 

Food for Thought is currently exhibited at Colchester School of Art at Colchester Institute until 17th June at 5pm and will then be exhibited at Free Range (Old Truman Brewery, Brick Lane, London) from 19th - 23rd June in a group exhibition.