It’s no secret that GOOD is one of my favorite publications.  Granted, I mourn their decision to go to a quarterly schedule to lower their carbon footprint and costs, among other reasons, but on the upside, it means a lot more web based content from this excellent magazine.

One recent offering caught my eye:  Picture Show: You Are What You Eat, which showcase the photographic endeavor of Mark Menjivar to showcase USAmerican culture through the contents of our refrigerators.  The notes about the household occupancy and personal facts add an even more humanizing anchor to the subject of one of our most basic needs: nutrition.

Whether the subject of the camera’s gaze is the near empty fridge of a person on fixed income which holds little more than a single condiment and what appears to be a handbag, or the rich red bounty of the deer hunter’s freezer, these simple photographs really make a point.  It may not be sublime, it may not be even be artistic, but the series of shots certainly has a punch to it, if you’re willing to look.