For my documentary photography project, I chose to document food in the U of A students' life. Everyone develops certain eating habits in college, some healthier than others, and some much tastier than others. Personally, I love food and eating, so this topic interested me because I'd get to investigate (a.k.a. cook) and also hopefully learn how to take pictures of food that look really appetizing (channeling foodporndaily.com). When I started the project, I was mostly only taking pictures of food I cooked or ate personally. However, I realized that this would give a very limited perspective on College Life Foods, so one random Tuesday I headed to the Union and (creepily) took a bunch of pictures of everyone and everything I saw. This part was rather difficult because one, there was a lot of movement and terrible lighting so every picture was coming out blurry, and, two, it was hard to get good compositions that were candid because everyone in the Union has a purpose, and I was the only one wandering around leisurely with my camera. The food there was way less tasty and healthy looking than most of what I'd been making at home, and it brought me back to the dorm days, where I'd gained a disgusting 14 lbs (yes, almost the freshman fifteen... yikes!). Hopefully this project will open the viewers' eyes as much as it did mine, in the making, about how gross our daily diets can get if we don't take care of ourselves. Not that a great sonoran dog isn't the perfect lunch every once in a while.
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