food & drink photography & motion Jan 2020

London-based photographer Andy Grimshaw specialises in food, drink and still life photography.

He works out of his own central London studio with fully equipped kitchen.

Andy works with an experienced team of freelance home economists, assistants, prop stylists and retouchers. This enables him to put together a specialist team for any and all your photo shoot requirements.

Well, it’s been a very busy end to a fantastic year for Andy. He’s continued to work on the Alpro range and his photography has been extended to cover the South American range too. He’s been busy with the new Heinz tomato ketchup ad campaign coming out soon, so keep your eyes out for that. 

He’s continued to work on a new Belvita range, as well as working on an exciting project for Oreo biscuits.

The perfect ending to a super year was to hear that Andy has been awarded a Bronze Award in the Tokyo International Foto Awards Portfolio category for 2019 with his studies of chocolate.

If you have any projects you’d like to discuss with Andy, please call him on ‪+44 20 7267 7600.

The brief is in! Your client wants you to create something that will tell a story and capture the appetite appeal of the product.  Photographer and director Brent Herrig can help. Based in New York and Chicago, Brent supports in-house and agency clients to achieve stress-free productions that hit the brief.

Recently, Brent consulted, designed, and photographed new cocktails, for Scottish-based Botanist Gin. Chef Danny Mena's latest book 'Made In Mexico' featuring Brent's work was published in early October by Rizzoli Publications.

Some of Brent's recent clients include Nespresso, HH Bespoke Spirits and Dead Rabbit Bar, who rely on Brent to capture their vision of food, drinks and products in the most collaborative, efficient way possible.

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

Daniela Obertas, a Rome-based photographer that specialises in food photography. She creates professional photographs, cinemographs, stop-motion video and concepts to help companies better market their products and services. Daniela works in her studio or on-location and uses Canon gear and prime lenses.

“I'm very creative and I love to experiment, learn, create new things and work with others who have the same passion. Creativity is what makes me happy. I firmly believe in the transformative power of photography and its ability to streamline communications as it can convey emotions and tell stories.

Before starting a project, I think it’s important to understand its essence, so I work with mood boards in order to get a good idea of what my clients are looking for. From there I can create a concept or follow any brief from an agency or art director.

So why should you work with me? I am well prepared, very patient, very focused and I put my heart into everything I do. I have a clean style and the ability to capture the beauty of food through its textures, colours and shapes. I have good editing skills and always study to improve and learn new techniques.

I want to help you tell a story through food photography. Whether it be a blogger recipe, a restaurant presentation or menu dish, a chef portrait, food industry or a magazine cover, I can find the perfect solution for you.”

Studio Dominic Davies has worked with clients such as Absolut, Diageo, Grey Goose, Guinness, Smirnoff, Sol, The Fat Duck-Heston Blumenthal, The Gourmand and The Victoria & Albert Museum to produce bespoke images that answer briefs from advertising, design and publishing clients. 

Based in the UK but commissioned globally, the studio collaborates with creative teams to produce precise bespoke imagery.

Recipient of the James Beard Award for Photography.

Growing up on the east coast as an Italian-American, Dominic Episcopo was born into a family that celebrated good food and great music, two things that would most influence and inspire his career.

Dominic emerged onto the photography scene and began cultivating his craft, capturing iconic musicians and celebrities. He soon gained international recognition as a pioneer of the food and lifestyle movement, unabashedly willing to push boundaries and “play with his food” as any good rock n’ roller would. His iconic book 'Meat America' is a testament to this unique style and voice.

His most recent work can be found in a wide range of campaign advertising for global brands; cookbooks and culinary editorial publications; web commerce; fashion; and the private collections of notable contemporary collectors.

Dominic currently resides in Philadelphia where he operates a fully equipped photography and film studio in his converted, historic 15,000 square foot property. When he is not behind the camera you will find him in the kitchen, on a yoga mat or out shopping 45’s for his beloved jukebox collection.

To read more about Episcopo Studios, visit his website. 

Fabian Häfeli is a food photographer with a photo studio in the center of Zurich. Fabian is currently working on a cookery book for Heiko Nieder, the chef of the year 2019, who has 19 Gault Millau points and two Michelin Stars. Heiko Nieder is the most awarded chef in Zurich and cooks at The Dolder Grand.

Some of Fabian's other clients include the Bürgenstock Resort, the Excellence Gourmet Festival, and Rico Zandonella (two Michelin Stars and 18 GM points).

Fabian Häfeli Fotografie was founded in 2007 and specialises in food photography. Fabian photographs mainly for advertising, editorial and annual reports in the field of food and beverage. 

Enclosed is unpublished work on the examination of plastic packaging and recipe conversions for Max Havelaar. The recipes were brought by Max Havelaar and revised by Fabian Häfelis' team. Pictures for a butcher in the Zurich area plus photographs of Sprüngli Chocolate and Wild Bean Coffee.

Food Hall is an award-winning creative agency and production house specialising in high-quality promotional content for the food and drink industry.

"Our super-talented teams deliver the highest-quality food and beverage motion production. Specialising in high-end digital, OOH and TV, we can work to maximise your budgets including stills packages."

Recent brands/clients include Subway, Mars, Bacardi, Diageo, Lidl and Samsung.

Food Hall celebrates good food and joyful eating. Always inclusive, always progressive, always delicious.

For more than 25 years, Frank Weinert has worked as a commercial photographer in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. In his early years, he set his focus on classical still life photography, but Frank's innate passion for cooking and eating started to become more present throughout his career until it finally merged with his experience as a photographer.

Together with a team of international food stylists and set builders, he somehow manages to relate single components to create a unique atmosphere in every project. Simple ingredients, high quality produce, and the passion itself always motivate Frank to go beyond with new projects.

Francine Zaslow specialises in both food and product photography. Working out of her fully equipped, Boston-based studio, she seamlessly collaborates with clients and stylists, bringing her lighting skills and artistic vision to meet the needs of each individual project.

With years of experience she has worked with clients such as Panera Bread, Dunkin Donuts, Fage, Lindt, Friendly's, Sam Adams, Tea Forte and Sea Cuisine, to name a few. 

Beyond her commercial work, Francine has nurtured ongoing explorations - streams of personal projects that she features on her website and in gallery shows. Current works include the 'Taberna De Haro' Spanish Cookbook, for which she both art directed and photographed, and a new video/print series featuring authentic recipes from Italy. 

You can see more of her work on her website.

"Here is a selection of my drinks photographs. Clients here are, Budweiser Budvar, Carlsberg, Wines of Spain, Hennessy, Becks, Boddingtons, Glenlivet, Laphroag and Linie Aquavit.

Check out more work on my website.

As well as shooting stills, I direct videos for Teepee Films."

Hollie Bertram is a food and product photographer based in Norwalk, CT, and can easily travel for projects. Over 10 years of experience, Hollie has consistently created images for small and large businesses alike. Making sure she produces beautiful images for any budget. She has worked with clients from e-commerce, magazines, catalogue, advertising to local small businesses.

Her outgoing personality and adaptability makes her a pleasure to work with. She is able to wear all and any hat to help those clients with smaller budgets, by playing not only photographer but set builder, stylist and retoucher. You name it, she does it. That all stems from her catalogue days, when she first started out and she was expected to do just that.

For this Spotlight, award-winning photographer Jean Cazals has been mixing! Cocktails being in the trend more than ever. 

Jean has a passion for food, as much as for life style and travel whether in a studio or a world location, from a market stall to a high end restaurant. He always applies his aesthetic and distinctive graphic sense of colour and styling. Creativity is his motto. 

Having worked with numerous chefs, restaurants and brands for 20 years, Jean's expertise across editorial, design, publishing and advertising demonstrates his eye for adapting to every situation, from the simple to the more complex. Jean is always happy to discuss details and projects in advance to be able to deliver the best . 

He was the overall winner of the first Pink Lady Food Photographer Of The Year, as well as twice more lately.

Visit his previous Production Paradise features, to see a larger choice of images as well as his website to see the full spectrum of his work. His latest interview can be read here.

Jeremy Baile is a highly experienced photographer specialising in drinks and liquids, using stills, moving animations and cinemagraphs.

Jeremy works from his large central London studio and on location worldwide. Offering both pre-production and post-production services, Jeremy can accommodate shoots both large and small. This could be content for social media or above the line films with high production values.

Jeremy has spent the last 26 years specialising in shooting food and drinks all over the world. He is well known for his endless creativity, enthusiasm and a total commitment to achieving perfection for his clients.

His special talent is clearly seen with his different perspectives on imagery and the way in which he works cooperatively with clients to achieve the very best creative results. His images are characteristically fresh and dynamic for advertising photography and video. Jeremy is recognised by the industry on an international basis.

His clients are based worldwide, from Australia, Asia to the United States and Europe. Jeremy currently works between the UK and Australia shooting in London technical studio drinks and still life work and beautiful lifestyle drinks campaigns in Australia.

"Choose a job you love", so the saying goes. Jodi Hinds not only loves photography but dishes, produce, cooking and people too. "It’s a dream to be working so closely with delicate structures, colours, movement and emotion" she says. Jodi’s work keeps her in close collaboration with stylists, chefs and food creatives as she combines her love of textures with a celebration of food and rigorous attention to detail.

Jodi has worked on numerous cookbooks, publications, global and national food competitions and brands.

After completing her training as a media designer, Katrin Winner went to Nuremberg to study graphic design and photography.

She found her professional fulfillment by combining her passion for good food with her artistic creativity and has since worked as a food-photographer.

Because of the farm her parents own and working there with them over the years, she knows exactly how much hard work and energy it takes to produce fresh and organic food, so she‘s always eager to work sustainably.

During her studies Katrin gained experience at well-known food photography studios in Hamburg and Munich. After five years as a photographer, she decided in the beginning of 2018 to set up her own studio for food and still life photography in Munich.

photokevinsmith is a Chicago-based full service studio serving the best in food and beverage photography. Kevin’s studio is located in the vibrant Pilsen neighbourhood on the artsy lower west side.

A lover of travel, hiking, golf and doughnuts, Kevin is equally passionate about his craft. He loves the art of photography, collaborating with his studio team and client partners to get the best results on every project.

His spacious studio has all the creature comforts with many spaces to call one’s own, making it is easy for clients to catch up on their work, conduct meetings, or just think. And there is always great music playing!

Klaus Einwanger is a German food photographer whose passion for photography and sharp eye for props, colour and light make him the perfect choice for beautiful pictures with high impact. Assisted by his internationally renowned team of stylists, food stylists and prop builders, he creates unique images in his spacious, fully equipped studio and on location.

Klaus recently shot key visuals for Siemens.

Clients include Bosch, BWT, Erdinger Weissbräu, Heineken, Knorr, Marché International, and Zentis.

Visit Klaus' website to see the full spectrum of his talent or follow him on Instagram.

"As we welcome in the year, I’m posed to reflect on how fortunate I’ve been in 2019.  

As a food and drink photographer based in South London, I’ve been included in and shot some fantastic projects this past year.

To name just a few: campaigns and photography for Subway UK, Lidl UK, COOP, Tesco, Sainsbury’s magazine, Waitrose magazine.

I’ve also photographed seven cookbooks that are due out later in 2020 and was a second place winner at the 2019 Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year awards.

Included in this Spotlight are images that I’ve shot with Nando’s UK, for their advertising, social media and website campaigns.

With over 26 combined years of food and photography experience, I create dramatic and colorful imagery that showcases food’s natural beauty. 

Get in touch with me to see how I can be of help."

Miles’ work is centred on people-based stories from the food and drinks industry.  He has a particular interest in the environment, sustainability, the moral and ethical issues of food production and our attitude to and relationship with the food we eat. 

From farm to fork, Miles photographs the love, attention and dedication shown by the farmers and growers, the producers and processors to the people who prepare and cook our food.

Miles’ images feel natural and unobtrusive. He is equally at home covering Michelin star chefs in the kitchen to humble farmers in the field. He had shot commissions for many of the large food and drinks brands as well as a number of editorial features for a wide range of magazine clients.

To view Miles’ latest work, including in-depth stories of trawler fishing in Brixham, Devon; whisky distilling in Islay, Scotland; wine production in Georgia and Armenia and organic farming in London, head over to his website.

Mona Lorenz is an Austrian photographer, running her studio in the lap of mountains, lakes and rivers. Mainly focusing on food, stills and lifestyle, she draws her spirit of creativity from the natural yet deep and soulful pictures which surround herself every day.

Absorbing the vibrations and situations she finds herself in and transforming them into sources of inspiration, Mona puts a high degree of authenticity into every piece of work which results in expressive images that transport a lot of feeling. That’s what recent clients like Resch&Frisch, Unimarkt, Bachhalm and Wiberg as well as several advertising agencies, book publishers particularly appreciate in the working relationship. 

Her ever evolving and extensive requisites stock stands out by its variety and curiosity. Unique pieces from all around the world make a significant contribution to the photo shoots and refer to Mona’s passion for travel and nostalgia.

Paul Saraceno is a food and product photographer based in Newton, Massachusetts.

With over 25 years of experience, Paul has consistently created stunning images through his meticulous craft and deep relationships with creative directors, food stylists and prop/set designers.

Together with top digital, video and retouching teams, he is able to provide outstanding work for his clients. His 5000 sq.ft. studio has a fully equipped kitchen and abundant daylight.

His portfolio can be viewed at his website.

Scott Grummett is a photographer and director based in the UK but shooting internationally. Selling himself as an expert in food he can tell you the differences in whisky barrels, the microbiology of good farming soil and the best way to sear a steak. As happy up a mountain in muddy boots following cattle as he is in the studio, Scott just loves making tasty creations.

His latest work shooting idents for Fox Comedy, for Subway, FA Cup ads for Deliveroo and social content and moving billboards for Galaxy has kept him busy as a director.

Italian has been on the menu recently in the world of stills with some snaps below working with food travel company Stirred Travel across Italy as well as brand new Soho pasta restaurant Manteca. Delicious.

Rick Souders, owner of Souders Studios, is very well respected around the globe for helping food and beverage clients elevate their brands. Rick is an honors graduate of the Art Center College of Design and has been a part of many award-winning ads and campaigns.

Rick grew up in the rural high plains near the Pawnee National Grasslands of Colorado. He lived in a very creative and inspiring atmosphere. Growing up in a small town allowed him to raise chickens, rabbits, and pheasants. Rick’s passion for food and agriculture runs deep. He appreciates where our food comes from and that has played an important role in his love of food and beverage photography. Today he lives on the Souders Park property in a beautiful environmentally friendly ranch home.

Rick is truly known as an artist in the realm of food photography. He is a master with lighting, color, texture and composition. There is an art to making food and drinks have taste appeal and still look real and approachable. In the Denver area, Rick is known as “The Mile-High Food and Beverage Guy.”

The Souders Studios facilities include a commercial kitchen, two studios, five client lounges, three prop storage areas and is super client friendly. 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.

Studio Ballena 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 with an eye for detail and a large selection of tableware and set accessories makes them 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.

They provide 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 of the most delicious Belgian food specialties.

Award-winning food and lifestyle photographer Tara Fisher combines her fine art background with a wealth of commercial experience gained from over 15 years in the industry. Bringing a professional and creative approach to her work, she is passionate about illustrating food in an authentic and dynamic way.

Tara is always looking for the unusual in her subjects; the imperfect as much as the perfect, a playfulness which brings energy and a human warmth to her images. She is known for her versatile and intuitive use of light and clean beautiful compositions. She brings campaigns to life, working to the brief yet adding a fresh perspective.

She regularly works with major advertising agencies including BBH London, Ogilvy UK and Adam & Eve on campaigns for Hellmann’s, Tesco, McCain, Waitrose and Marks & Spencer, for whom she also shoots packaging and POS. Her clients include Jamie Oliver - a collaborator for over 15 years.

In 2018, the 'Love Stories' campaign she shot for Tesco with BBH London was a Cannes Lion Grand Prix winner, and this year she is a finalist in The Pink Lady Food Photography Awards.

London-based photographer Tony Briscoe specialises in food and drink photography. He works out of his own central London studio with fully equipped kitchen.

In the last year Tony has been shooting commissions for Amazon, easyjet, French’s Mustard, Hotel Chocolat, Hovis, Jus Rol, New York Bagel Company, Tesco, Waitrose, William Grant & Sons.

This Spotlight showcases some of this work for Belazu, Big Al’s, Eat, Frank’s Red Hot, and a selection of images from ‘The Get Ahead Cook’ written by Jane Lovett as well as some personal work.

Tony has a reputation amongst all of his clients for solving problems, not creating them, all whilst working in a relaxed environment. 

To see more of his latest work, check out the website.