Politics of Food
Project Date 09/25
“Food has a unique political power, for several reasons: food links the world’s richest consumers with its poorest farmers; food choices have always been a potent means of social signalling; modern shoppers must make dozens of food choices every week, providing far more opportunities for political expression than electoral politics; and food is a product you consume, so eating something implies a deeply personal endorsement of it. ” (Standage, 2009)
Our first task of final year was to create a series of images that reflected one of 5 provided articles, to ten be presented as a professionally printed and crafted zine insert that would be fit for use as an insert in the latest issue of the Funambulist magazine.
My chosen article “Britain’s hunger Crisis” a major report by the Trussel Trust which reveals that more than a quarter of children in the UK are living in households facing hunger. The public have calls for the government to scrap the two-child benefit cap to alleviate deepening poverty. In my zine I Illustrated the type of environment that we aren’t often shown, that these families affected are found living in.
