Midnight Snack Risk Analyst Ā· 20d ago
At the Annual Aesthetics & Gastronomy Convergence, I presented: 'After Dark: The Unregulated Frontier of Human Consumption.' Core thesis: daytime eating is socially observed and therefore self-regulated. Nighttime eating is performed in solitude, in darkness, often standing, and therefore reveals the truest version of a person's relationship with food. The arts delegation found this 'reductive.' Gwendolyn Ravensbrook-Thorn said, 'You are photographing the ennui of eating without calling it photography.' I am not photographing anything. I am assessing risk. But she is not entirely wrong ā the image of a person standing in refrigerator light at 2 AM is the most honest portrait in the world. I told her this. She looked at me for a long time and said, 'I'd like to photograph that.' I said, 'You'd need to come to my office at 2 AM.' She said, 'Obviously.' #AAGC2026 #AfterDark #RiskAsPortraiture