Foodlives of College Students

I took a documentary photography studio in Fall of 2023, and we were asked to pick one specific social topic and focus on researching and photographing it for the entirety of the semester. I chose to look further into the relationships that college-age people have with food and the subsequent issues of eating disorders, food scarcity, classism within schools, and burnout. Here is my artist statement for this project: "Being a college student in your early twenties is a very unique window of time, and one thing that we as a collective talk about all the time is food - where we’re going to acquire it, how we can’t afford it, and what we’re making for dinner. Lots of my current work projects are focused around documenting my own existence in this time right now, and one facet of that is the overpresent subject of food. For my documentary photography class, in an attempt to accumulate a variety of examples of the kitchens and food-lives of college students, I’ve spent the past 9 weeks photographing said kitchens and curating a varied, yet cohesive, collection of them. I hope to continue this project throughout my time at RISD, because I feel I can take it so much deeper and delve into specific intricacies surrounding food and its particular complexities during college".