<p><b>That cartoon cliché of a man standing transfixed before an open refrigerator? That’s Mark Menjivar—except he’s aiming a camera.</b></p> <p><b></b>For a project Menjivar calls “Refrigerators,” the former social worker photographs the fridges of people from all walks of life. He captions them obliquely: The midwife, for example, recently vowed to eat only local produce. The street advertiser “lives on $432” a month. The bartender “goes to sleep at 8 a.m. and wakes up at 4 p.m.” (leaving little time to eat leftover takeout).</p> <p>Touring exhibits of the actual-size photos, Menjivar says, spark discussion of “not only our personal relationship to food but the larger society’s relationship to food systems."</p> <p>This refrigerator (above) in San Antonio, Texas, is filled by a midwife and her husband, a science teacher, to feed a family of four.</p> <p class="subh3"><b>RELATED:</b> <a href="http://www.nationalgeographic.com/foodfeatures/evolution-of-diet/">"Could Eating Like Our Ancestors Make Us Healthier?"</a></p> <p class="subh3"><i>Find this month's story from the National Geographic Future of Food series at&nbsp;<a href="http://food.nationalgeographic.com/">natgeofood.com.</a></i></p>