Showing the audience how some families opt to eat, this NYC dining photo series is worrisome and surprisingly alluring as it does a great job portraying how families have changed their habits in modern times.
The series depicts all types of family units like a single mom eating alone while watching TV, a teenage girl with pasta on her bed, a mother feeding her baby while chatting with her parents over Skype and a young couple eating a pizza. Captured by photographer Miho Aikawa, the NYC dining photo series is a candid look at evening rituals.
The ‘Dinner in NY’ series was inspired by a recent study published in Public Health Nutrition that stated that most of us only give 50% of our concentration to eating nowadays because we are usually preoccupied with other things.
Key Themes Behind This Trend
- Changing Dining Habits
- Opportunity to create innovative dining experiences and products that cater to the modern lifestyle of multitasking and preoccupation.
- Redefining Family Mealtime
- Opportunity to develop services or products that encourage shared meals and meaningful connections amidst the distractions of modern life.
- Documenting Everyday Rituals
- Opportunity to explore new ways of capturing and preserving the mundane yet significant moments of daily life through engaging visual content.
Where This Applies
- Food Services
- Opportunity for restaurants and food delivery services to adapt their offerings to fit the changing dining habits and cater to the multitasking consumer.
- Technology
- Opportunity to develop innovative communication tools and platforms that enhance family connections during mealtimes, even when physically apart.
- Photography
- Opportunity for photographers and visual artists to explore and capture the evolving dining rituals and experiences in modern society with a focus on authenticity and emotion.
