Ultra Processed Horror is a two-day pop-up exhibition by Alameda photographer Jim DuPont.

DuPont came to photography after a 35-year career as a union organizer with UNITE HERE, the union representing hotel and restaurant workers. After retiring, he explored several interests before photography became the one that stayed. His work continues to reflect the social consciousness shaped by decades of organizing.

In Ultra Processed Horror, that background meets his photographic practice directly. Using staged photography, dark humor, and a deliberately exaggerated visual language, DuPont turns his attention to ultra-processed food and the culture surrounding it. Bright packaging, excess, repetition, and absurdity become material for photographs that are funny at first glance and more pointed the longer you look.

Rather than approaching the subject as documentary photography, he builds images that push his concerns about how heavily processed food is marketed, consumed, and normalized into something theatrical, strange, and intentionally over the top.

Ultra Processed Horror is open for two days only at Frame 1A.

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