Prey Before Meals

This project explores the rituals of contemporary life, starting from a seemingly trivial habit: photographing meals before eating. What appears harmless is, in fact, a socially imitated ritual. People raise their phones not to truly remember or savor the moment, but to make the scene look “right.” The work invites viewers to reflect on the meaning of modern rituals. When practices no longer arise from belief or reinforce genuine emotion, and instead persist merely out of habit or social expectation, what significance do they retain? Through this lens, the project examines how everyday actions—like “the camera eats first”—mirror broader social patterns of repetition, imitation, and the subtle shaping of identity.