"The Last Meal", a customary ritual preceding execution, granting a condemned prisoner a last meal has roots in superstition in that a meal was a highly symbolic social act and accepting offered food symbolises making peace with the host.
Although customised last meals has its roots in Texas, where it it is thought to have been established in 1924, there are many countries whereby the prisoner may in reason, select what their last meal will be.
This project is a collection of some of those last meal requests from prisoners over the past 136 years. The project has the inclusion of text within, whereby each image is accompanied stating the last meal request and information about the prisoner who requested it.
The images are deliberately photographed in a commercial way, challenging the nature of the text provided, thus changing the perception of the said image. Only then, once the viewer has also consumed the reality of the text will they realise the contradiction of the concept and nature of the project.