Los Angeles-based photographer and curator Stephanie Gonot has photographed a series called ‘Fad Diet’, and it chronicles a few insane ways that doctors have published as diet methods and people ‘swore helped them lose weight’.
To highlight the severity of fad diets, Gonot portrays it by showing nothing much at all, except what is exactly prescribed in the various diets—diet soda and cigarettes, lemon juice and maple syrup, five bites of food, baby food, and so on.
By taking pictures of these fad diets, she wants to make visual representations of these diets that show how absurd they really are.
According to Gonot, “I’m not interested in making food look appetizing, just interested in making people think differently about the things they eat.”
Do you think Gonot’s photographs are effective in driving this point across?
[via Fast Company]