Just as watching somebody release digested matter through their exit, or anus, is an unpleasant and private affair, people cramming food into their entrance, or mouth, can be an equally nauseating sight. At least the butt, in most cases, is an orifice tight enough that one can’t see the bits and pieces of feces being jumbled and tossed around within.With the yap trap, everything becomes way more visible, something we saw everyday but never realized how revolting it can be until an artist presented the munchers with an up close and personal look at our own hunger-curbing ways.

As Cherry Archer’s photographs for her project Consumption Society show, your piehole is a sump of moisture and bacteria ready to be stuffed with consumables. The pictures have managed to turn an average snack-time into an exposé on the grossness of human eating (not eating humans). The close-up photos of tongue movements, lip smacking, and sauce dripping have given me a different perspective on the process. I knew licking and chomping wasn’t the most glamorous thing but goddamn am I disgusted.

Adding to the foulness of the snapshots, I believe the photographer used some lighting or camera filter that emphasizes the oils and imperfections on the forehead, cheeks, and around the lips, turning the face into a greasy canvas.  Maybe Bloomberg will see these and outlaw eating in public or chewing with your mouth open. The full collection can be gawked at after the jump.

Via Beautiful Decay.

- Casper