Scanned Images Of Fast Food Show How Unappetizing They Really Are

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For almost a decade, photographer Jon Feinstein has been documenting burgers, hotdogs, nuggets and other junk food in a photo series called ‘Fast Food’.

Using a scanner, he creates close-up images of fast food—revealing how gross and yet almost appetizing they really are.

“It felt like the process of placing the food onto a scanner gave the food a strange, specimen-like quality that could not be achieved in the same way if I were photographing it with a camera,” said Feinstein.

Also, instead of naming where each piece of food came from, he labels them according to the amount of fat they contain.

“The project is a typology of food from a range of restaurants, so including the grams serves as a kind of pseudo-scientific method of organizing or standardizing them,” he added.

“When I first launched the project years ago, I noticed a lot of activity on Twitter to the effect of ‘This project will make you never want to eat a Whooper again,’ and unfortunately I don’t think that’s as true as it should be. Despite the rather disgusting quality of many of these images, there is still an allure.”

What do you think? Would you still eat fast food after seeing his images?

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