The American photographer Gregg Segal travelled around the world taking pictures of children next to all the food they eat in a week.

He arrived in Brazil in August. The trips started the Daily Bread project which has led to several discoveries. For example, children from families with less money might eat healthier food than those in families with more money.

Poorer families cook at home using vegetables, fruits, and grains grown by them (or found at a low cost in open markets). Richer families can eat out and consume more fast food, for example.

Gregg gives examples of this contradiction in his photos and shares facts such as  “…in stark contrast to the United States, where 60% of the calories we consume come from ultra-processed food and only 1% come from vegetables,” as mentioned in TIME magazine. Also, nine of the 10 countries with the healthiest diets in the world are located in Africa. This is based on a ranking done in 2015 by the University of Cambridge cited by the photographer.

The project also concluded that children from different parts of the world might eat very similar food because of globalization. Industrialized products, such as frozen pizza, can be found in supermarkets all over the world and even in countries that are very different.

The photos

The first child to be photographed for the project was Hank, Gregg’s son. The picture was taken in 2016 in California in the United States where they live. Afterwards, the photographer went to Malaysia, India, Germany, Senegal, the United Arab Emirates, France, and Italy before arriving in Brazil.

With the help of people he knows in different countries, Gregg chooses the children he will take pictures of. Then, he asks the children to write a diary of everything they eat in a week. He has a team that prepares the food the child has listed, and then the child is photographed next to the food.

“I’m focusing on kids because eating habits, which form when we’re young, last a lifetime, and often pave the way to chronic health problems like diabetes, heart disease and colon cancer,” explains Gregg on the project’s website (https://www.greggsegal.com/P-Projects/Daily-Bread/). The photographer’s work about what children eat will become a book that is expected to come out in the United States in March 2019.

QUESTIONS

1) How did the photographer choose the children for the project?
a) Through a lottery
b) He visited schools.
c) He asked people he knows for help.
d) He looked for children on social networks.

2) Do you think you eat healthily? Explain your answer.

 

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