16" x 20"
Photographic print mounted under acrylic 2023
@capturedby.melissa
Melissa Rempel is a fine art photographer based in Cambridge, ON. After obtaining her Bachelor’s degree in advertising from OCAD U, she began her lens-based practice incorporating her passion for culinary arts, advertising, and commercial imagery. Drawing from these inspirations Melissa’s work often explores themes of daily ritual and finding playfulness within the mundane. Melissa’s most recent series, Till Death Do Us Part, explores the ritualistic habits of consuming junk food and the negative health implications associated.
THE STORY:
Inspired by recent studies that reveal unhealthy eating is currently responsible for more deaths per year than smoking cigarettes. This photographic series explores the negative implications associated with consuming junk food, expressed through familiar visual representations of cigarette smoking and the paralleled attributions of the two commodities such as collective bonding, ritualization, and glamorization in media.
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