Sep 4 2026 | By: Alexis McKeown
I’m beginning a new personal project and am looking to connect with thoughtful, courageous collaborators who are interested a couple of things:
1) food & eating
2) being photographed by me and also sharing a meal & a good chinwag
3) being part of a bigger conversation about food & eating
Ok friends & food lovers, here's the scoop.
I am dreaming up yet another photography project that is inspired by food and eating and being in a feminine body circa these days. And I am wondering whether you might want to be part of it :)
I've explored my own thoughts, feelings, baggage, etc around food and eating in a previous (and potentially still on-going) project called FIGURING and I found that the experience of making and sharing that work was incredibly cathartic. And even though I worked on it for 2 years, and that series currently has over 30 images in it, I have not come close to getting bored of the subject matter.
While FIGURING was created completely solo, with this new project, I'm interested in connecting & collaborating with other women.
From a very young age, women are bombarded with so many loud and mixed messages about what to eat, what not to eat, what certain foods might do to our physical appearance and also how important that physical appearance is, and most of these messages are utter bullshit. I'm not sure I know a single women whose relationship with food & eating hasn't been twisted and negatively impacted by this cultural messaging.
This project will be a visual rebellion against diet culture and, maybe more importantly, a celebration of
appetite,
nourishment,
connection,
and the myriad of gifts that food & eating provide.
If you're interested in being part of my this new project of mine, please send me an email by clicking the "Let's Eat" button below and I will get in touch with more details :)