Food Photography is a huge phenomenon currently, especially on photograph social network apps like Instagram. These days, it seems, we’re all food photographers: we can barely begin to eat your Nando’s without taking a photo of our chicken. On average, 60 million photos are uploaded onto Instagram just by Americans each day, with a majority of them of foods.

Many people complain of its stupidity for being popular but for restaurateurs, these pictures are no joke: People are taking a massive number of photos of food, and Instagram’s Photo Map feature instantly shows what’s being served at a restaurant, this boosts the advertisement of restaurants .If the food is gross it can photographed in lighting and processed through a filter that makes it look delicious, conversely great meals can look unappetizing when spoilt by filters, so what foods are actually nice?

Food photography on social network sites like Instagram is causing a shrinking world. The benefit of the rise of food photos is that it gets us talking about what we eat and where it comes from, the more we talk about food the better understanding we have of the food system. However, whilst we are busy taking photos of our meals, we are forgetting about the problems we have with starvation as well as hunger around the world. Infact, a recent study shows that overexposure to images of food makes you become tired of the taste of the foods you are viewing.