food & drink photography + motion Sep 2017

Andy Seymour specialises in food, drink and still life photography. He operates out of his Central London studio.

Visit his website for more information.

Stockholm-based Bianca Brandon-Cox started her career as a documentary photographer 20 years ago. Inspired by her work as an Art Director for food photo shoots, in 2009 she focused her own business entirely on food and beverage.

She now works as a food photographer, prop stylist, film director and DoP on food films for commercial products, restaurants and reportage productions. She uses her skills for both people and food and has won several awards such as 'Best in the World' in the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards.

Bianca has developed certain skills for social media such as film production for YouTube, Facebook and Instagram. Her clients range between small producers and big commercial companies, including Arla Foods, Axfood, Mars Nordics, Philips, Oatly, Urtekram, Kung Markatta, Svenskt kött, Restaurant Mistral, Gourmet Magazine, Travel + Leisure Magazine, Giorni, Bonnier, Norstedts, Semic and Brillbee.

"Hello NYC Creatives, finish this sentence: "My client ___________."

"Needs to collaborate with someone new";

"Has a specific style in mind for the brand";

"Wants a new and inspiring look";

"Must have appetite-appeal in their shots".

No matter how the sentence concludes, Brent Herrig Photography can help you please your clients and achieve exactly what they're looking for, again and again.

Brands including Bailey's, Virgin Atlantic and Ketel One, restaurants and PR Agencies as well as his most recent cookbook 'The Whole30 Cookbook' and The New York Times rely on Brent to capture their vision of food, cocktails and portraits in the most collaborative, enjoyable way possible.

What can Brent help you with? Contact him directly to talk about your next project or assignment."

Dominic Davies is a photographer who works primarily but not exclusively in the controlled environment of the studio. Experimental and collaborative in approach, he brings a precise and crafted vision to all his projects, driven by a fascination with exploring and realising ideas photographically.

His work has been commissioned by clients across the fields of design, music, publishing, museums and advertising.

Clients include Absolut, AnOther Magazine, Aspesi, Bloomsbury, 4AD, Grey Goose, Haagen Dazs, Guinness, Nike, Lee Cooper, Smirnoff, The Victoria & Albert Museum, The Fat Duck, The Gourmand and XL Records.

It’s been an intensely busy summer for Duncan Loughrey, with seven weeks of back-to-back shoots for the likes of Beefeater, Brewer’s Fayre, Table Table and Whitbread Inns.

With 30 years' experience, Duncan has a keen eye for detail, is technically adept, and thrives on a bit of problem solving. An expert at retouching, Duncan likes to keep most post-production work in-house allowing complete control through all stages of the image making process.

Happy to shoot in studio or on location, Duncan undertakes every shoot in an enthusiastic, professional and friendly manner.

Two experienced pros, Christopher Tech and Hans Gerlach, are teaming up in their new venture: food und text studios - a loft environment with professional test kitchen and seperate spaces for large and small photo and video productions. Together they specialise in everything about food - Hans and Christopher love to find the perfect food, light and style for every new assignment.

Recent work includes commercial video and photo production for Adelholzener Mineral Water, clean eating company Detox Delight, Siemens coffee and dishwasher divisions, Bosch home appliances and dairy companies like Gervais, Weihenstephan and Edelweiss.

They are proud to work on a regular basis with many of their editorial clients - often including text and recipe development. Some of their favourites have been Thrive Magazine, Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazine, BEEF! and Meine Familie und ich. Coming soon is a new book entitled 'Bitter'.

For Scottish-born Hannah Caldwell, one of the best things about living and working in Melbourne is the food. As well as being delicious, it’s the perfect medium to indulge her love of rich colour, texture, shade, and her fascination with capturing light, and she’s always inspired by the high-quality produce of her home state.

Hannah has more than a decade’s experience in the photography industry. As well as food, she loves shooting interiors and still life. She infuses all her work with a painterly quality; her images have a clean, minimal feel, with strong graphic lines, while also expressing an appreciation of drama.

Favouring magenta hues, deeper blues and darker colours, Hannah creates an emotion and mood through the shot to really engage the viewer. She finds collaboration on shoots especially inspiring, and has worked with some wonderful chefs, art directors, and stylists.

Photography is Hannah’s career, but it’s so much more than that - it’s her way to convey the beauty she sees in the world.

Hans Geel specialises in food, beverage and liquids photography, especially cold and frozen drinks like sparkling refreshments and ice cold beer. He is also a skilled food and drink stylist and special effects specialist for ice, snow, frost, dew, condensation, liquid splashes, etc. He is available for photo and video productions.

Hans is an expert creator of cinemagraphs; beautiful images with subtle movements that keep the observer intrigued.

Latest work includes 7Up POS and web campaign for PepsiCo., Royal Bliss launch campaign for Coca-Cola Spain, Finley Mojito campaign for Coca-Cola France, Martini & Tonic advertising campaign, Freixenet cava social media images, Almond Breeze social media images, Alhambra Brewery POS campaign, cookbooks for Random House and Susaeta Publishers, Moulinex food styling for Publicis Middle East.

Clients include Coca-Cola, PepsiCo., Diageo, Martini & Rossi, Freixenet, Almond Breeze, Alhambra Brewery, Random House, Susaeta Publishers, Deliveroo, Griffith Foods and Moulinex.

"Hudson Stuart is a magical image wizard, who uses everything from photography to CGI/3D to digital painting, to create images that are extraordinary, warm, approachable, and resonate with good humour.

Specialising in food, product, editorial, and conceptual work, Hudson's clients include Red Mango, Smoothie Factory, Espiga, Branca de Neve, Adult Swim, Food Network, and many others.

Most recently, Hudson has created custom 3D models of gummy candies for a Portuguese candy company, photographed beautiful cafe food and drinks for menu board illustrations, and created a CGI tiger for a fashion editorial project.

Tomorrow, you might find him destroying a city with a giant robot, photographing a frosty beer, making ice cream dance, or fitting an entire elephant into a closet."

Jan Brunclik made the decision to be a photographer at the age of 10. Although he talks about himself as an advertising photographer, food and drink are a heartfelt passion visible in his work. He founded his studio in 1995 and has been involved in this field of photography since the beginning.

Jan takes pictures of advertising campaigns as well as cookbooks, etc. Clients include KFC, Kraft Foods, Vorwerk-Thermomix, Nestlé, Pilsner Urquell and many others.

Jan's great advantage is his experience across multiple areas of photography and advertising. Excellent technical equipment and his own production and post-production service are a plus.

Janyon Boshoff's relaxed and patient demeanour belies the intensity with which he sets about his work, whether its a soulful portrait, a conceptual advertising brief, or capturing the simple beauty of the food he photographs. His distinctive lighting and subtle grades yield honest and authentic imagery with little requirement for further manipulation.

Janyon believes the disciplines of the craft learned from a decade of shooting on film have stood him in good stead to enjoy the creative freedom that the digital age offers. His enjoyment of what he does is evident in the enthusiasm with which he applies himself to each brief.

The fact that many of Janyon's clients are also repeat customers is testament to the fact that they feel well taken care of.

Janyon is represented by SamIam.

Creativity and style are the key words for Jean Cazals' work. Featured in this Spotlight are further new examples of this approach to his beloved food and people, from kitchen to table!

Having won numerous awards in London and abroad, Jean is devoted to food as much as photography - his passion and understanding of the business, having worked with numerous chefs, restaurants and brands for 20 years, provides him with expertise across editorial, design, publishing and advertising. His kitchen studio is based in Notting Hill with numerous props at hand.

Jean loves diversity and shooting in a studio, on location, or abroad. His love of styling is also a great asset.

Visit his previous Production Paradise features, his new website to see the full spectrum of his work, as well as his latest interview.

One rarely goes a day without seeing Chicago photographer Joe Pellegrini’s work in store windows, magazines, catalogues, cookbooks or cereal boxes.

For over two decades, Joe has been an industry leader in product and food photography. Also an accomplished painter, he has brought his artistic sensibilities to national campaigns for Coca-Cola, McDonald's, Kellogg's, Tyson, and for the past 11 years has shot virtually all of Subway’s national and international print and outdoor ads and in-store displays.

Unflappable, Joe has made a career delivering memorable imagery with the utmost professionalism for products ranging from Scrubbing Bubbles to Jim Beam.

Shoot days find his studio abuzz with clients snacking on mini candy bars while Joe and his group of top food stylists, special FX and digital technicians descend on every product shot with a practiced efficiency and provide proven success.

Jonathan Gregson is an award-winning professional photographer with almost 20 years’ experience in food, still life and travel. Jonathan has worked with brands including Harrods, Havana Club, Lurpak, Hovis, Marks & Spencer, Taylor’s Coffee, The White Company, Marcus Wareing Restaurants, Waitrose and Yorkshire Tea.

Jonathan’s photography has featured extensively in Cereal, The Guardian, Jamie Magazine, Lonely Planet Traveller, Observer Food Monthly, Waitrose Food, Martha Stewart Living and The Sunday Times.

His work illustrates numerous books including Marcus Wareing, Duchy Originals, Madhur Jaffrey, Maria Elia, The River Café and Shipton Mill.

Jonathan's awards include 'Photographer of The Year' in the 2017 Fortnum & Mason Food & Drink Awards. He has been category winner in the ‘Pink Lady Food Photographer Of The Year’ in 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2017 as well as a finalist in Travel Photographer Of The Year in 2012 and 2015. He is represented by Pearson Lyle Management.

With an extended background in food photography and cooking, Kai Stiepel's life has been all around food. Kai is passionate about production, styling, aesthetics and decoration. He works closely with art directors, set designers and food stylists to create compelling imagery for client needs.

Kai has a beautiful love of light and atmosphere. His work was awarded 2nd place in this year's Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year awards.

In addition to food photography, he passionately shoots still life.

Take a closer look on the website or email Kai for more information.

PifPaf Production ‒based in Kiev, Ukraine‒ is focused and specialised in commercial table top photography and video.

Atmospheric, inspiring light by Sergiy Rud combined with sophisticated food styling by Juliya Malanuk is what makes PifPaf special.

Huge experience in every aspect of commercial work includes full service concept creation, consulting, pre-production, production and post-production.

Rick Souders, owner of Souders Studios, has been shooting food and drinks for some of the world’s most well-known brands. Rick is an honors graduate of the Art Center College of Design and has been a part of many award-winning images.

Rick is truly known for the artful nature in which he captures food and beverage and that 'in-your-face' taste appeal.  Using light, colour and texture as his palette, he creates amazing edible imagery. He is known as the “Mile High Food and Beverage Guy.” Souders Studios is based at the edge of the Rockies in Golden, Colorado and is celebrating 20 years this year!

The Souders Studios facilities include a commercial kitchen, two studios, five client lounges, three prop storage areas and is super client friendly. The studios have helped transform many food and beverage brands into visual icons. Square Pixels is its award-winning retouching and digital compositing studio.

Visit the website, email Rick directly, or call 303-384-3128 for more information.

Stephen Conroy is a photographer and director for Heatwave Pictures - the specialist food film production company.

While continuing to take delicious natural images for his stills clients he is sought after as a director of films.

Most recently showcased in the Levi Roots' Reggae Reggae social media campaign and the promotions of global poultry brand BRF. Clients are seeing the benefits of having the stills and films of their campaigns produced with the same ‘look’.

Food, drink, documentary, portrait photographer and director Steve Ryan hails from Kilkenny in Ireland. He has worked with world famous chefs and producers such as Jamie Oliver, Fergus Henderson, and Meatopia and brands including Guinness, Tabasco and Encona sauces to name a few. He has shot reportage and profile features for The Financial Times, Selfridges, Lidl, Olive Magazine, Cara and Vice Magazine.

In 2013 he was ranked among the top 10 food photographers by Flavour First magazine and was nominated for photographer of the year at the Irish Magazine Awards.

Steve is a co-founder and co-editor of the London-based food magazine Root + Bone. He is based in East London.

Studio Ballena by Bert Balcaen is a high-end commercial photo studio in Belgium with two large, fully equipped studios, one near Brussels and one between Brussels and Gent, and a professional team working both in studio or on location.

Offering a full-service approach to clients, including an in-house food and set stylist, and with an eye for detail along with a large selection of tableware and set accessories, the studio is a valued partner for many brands and agencies. By always using the latest technologies and equipment, an edge in efficiency and quality is guaranteed for all projects.

Post-production work is taken care of by the team in a fully colour calibrated workflow from camera to print.

The team provides mouth-watering photography to food and drinks companies as well as brand and marketing agencies for use in advertising, packaging, social media and publishing to support marketing campaigns and branding. Recent projects include some famous chocolate brands and catering businesses.

TASTE is a growing tabletop company with directors Thomas Schauer and Margaret Elman. Together, they bring a unique approach to the tabletop world.

Fresh, modern and product sensitive, TASTE cares deeply about food culture, leveraging relationships with master chefs to ensure its production expertise and gourmet knowledge produces the best and most authentic cuisine branding possible.

Margaret, having worked with brands such as Haagen Dazs, Nestlé, Dole, McDonald’s, Kikkoman, Publix, and Chobani, displays mouth-watering talent bringing the product to life. Thomas, with over 20 years of expertise in the industry, continues to 'wow' his clients with the ability to work with subjects in an inventive style.

The two of them live in a world surrounded by the love of food and cinematic storytelling. "TASTE is a collaboration you definitely don’t want to miss out on!"

For Theodosis Georgiadis, one of the leading food photographers in Greece, every food and beverage shoot is a new challenge he meets with creativity and authenticity.

His new passion is food videography in which he combines excellent lighting skills with moving images. Being an excellent cook himself, Theodosis is well aware of the ways to transform a simple dish into a “masterpiece”, and easily recognises the essence of every ingredient.

National and internationally companies including Lidl, Aldi, Sklavenitis and Masoutis Supermarkets have hired him and trusted his unique flair for capturing and depicting their packaging, posters, leaflets and promotional material. Recent collaborations with Estia, Savikos, Ble, Paliria and Ioniki have brought to life vibrant, bright images of food and beverage, shot in both his own fully equipped studio as well as on location.

He recently received the 'People’s Choice Award' at the Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year awards for his non-documentary food video for PAX Burgers.

Photostudio Tobias Reymond Foto | Film is based in Amsterdam and specialises in food, stills, product and portraits aimed at advertising, packaging design and moving content clients. The team consists of three professional and well trained photographers, a production manager and a designer/backdrop artist.

The company draws from a consistent group of food stylists and retouchers. The 400m² studio easily handles larger productions across multiple and simultaneous sets.

"We aim for close and direct cooperation with our clients. Likewise for the set up in our studio: close to the action in transparent workspaces, clients can interact with the set while working in a comfortable, private space."

With parking available, the studio is easy to reach from the airport and is close to the city centre. Both small and large companies, A-list and private labels are amongst the company's satisfied clientele.

Tobias Reymond Foto | Film is preferred supplier to Unilever, KLM and Ahold.

"I wish I could say I have tasted every dish I have photographed. Sometimes there is just not enough time in the day. People may not agree on politics, taxes, or even the weather, but we surely drop our differences and come together over food. Time spent at the table with others is one of the best ways to get to know them. Photography is much the same.

My work has been recognised in the creative industry’s leading publications: Art Director’s Club of New York Annual, the Communication Arts Design Annual, Print magazine’s Regional Design annual, Creative Quarterly, Photo District News, Society of Publication Design Annuals and SPOTS competition."