What if Mark Menjivar came up to you right now and asked if he could take a picture of what’s inside your refrigerator? What would he find? Fresh foods, take-out containers, beer, soda, juice or barely anything?
The contents of your refrigerator say a lot about your lifestyle, what you eat or drink, your cooking ability, and possibly your socioeconomic status. Mark Menjivar, a photographer who lives in San Antonio, Texas, traveled the United States for three years asking random people if he could take a picture of what was inside their refrigerators.
Mark Menjivar’s photographs reveal a lot about his subjects, from the disarray of styrofoam containers of a bartender who works nights to the neatly piled up fresh vegetables of a midwife who decided to eat locally grown produce.
So, if you are what you eat, what’s inside your refrigerator?
A refrigerator is both a private and a shared space. One person likened the question, “May I photograph the interior of your fridge?” to asking someone to pose nude for the camera. Each fridge is photographed “as is.” Nothing added, nothing taken away.
These are portraits of the rich and the poor. Vegetarians, Republicans, members of the NRA, those left out, the under appreciated, former soldiers in Hitler’s SS, dreamers, and so much more. We never know the full story of one’s life.
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