food & drink photography Jul 2012

Andy Seymour specialises in food, drink and still life photography.

He operates out of his Central London studio.

Visit his website for more information.

Axel Waldecker is an established food, liquid and still life photographer with over 20 years experience combining refined sensibility with masterful lightning. With a relaxed and highly professional approach to every job, he is known for his unique sense for detail.

His studio near Stuttgart comes digitally equipped and has a fully working kitchen suitable for all types of food assignments. Axel shoots digitally in the studio or out on location worldwide.

Axel is currently looking for representation.

Brian is an award-winning advertising photographer based in the Chicago area who has been working for 20 years. He has a knack for taking his clients' visual ideas, and turning them into reality.

Brian’s strong sense of design, colour and his technical expertise enable him to simplify and customise his approach to every project. He also has a spacious shooting area, which comfortably accommodates three-to-four sets and a full commercial kitchen. The openness of the kitchen and the studio allows for an easy workflow when moving in and out of each set, while the kitchen has everything a food stylist would need.

The client area is comfortable and functional, with clients welcome to use a large conference table and connect to a wireless network.

Christian Lohfink is a high-quality still life photographer specialising in liquid and food images.

Recent work includes Dr. Pepper, Orangina, Gerolsteiner, Nordzucker and Krombacher Fassbrause.

He is represented in German speaking countries by PAM-Mirjam Böhm.

Clients include Coca-Cola, Apollinaris, Staatl. Fachingen, Arla Food, CMA, Feinkost Käfer, Mars, Bitburger, Blanchet, Jacobs and Häagen-Dazs.

Colin Cooke has been a commercial photographer for 25 years, focusing on food and food-related lifestyle products. Artistry, combined with his highly skilled technical lighting capabilities, have made him one of the top food photographers working today. 

Colin has photographed for many of the top blue-chip food companies and magazines for products such as Kraft-Triscuits, Ragu, Oscar Mayer, Philadelphia Cream Cheese, Maxwell House, Jell-O, Planters, Minute Rice, Unilever, Bertolli Olive Oil, Lipton Tea, Lipton Sides, Hellman's, Knorr, Slimfast, I Can't Believe it's Not Butter!, Shed's Spread, Mrs. Butterworth's, Dove Soap, Lifebuoy, Sunlight, All, Surf, Cadbury Chocolates, Dove Chocolates, Publix Supermarkets (ice cream), Panasonic, Titleist, IBM, American Express, Jurlique, Country Living, Ladies Home Journal, Men's Health, Food Arts, Wine Spectator, Healthy Choice, Seagrams Brands, Renaissance Hotels, Waterford, Dannon, Colgate, Haagen Dazs, and many more.

Colin is represented by Doug Truppe.

Eric Wolfinger was a cook and a baker for six years before working behind the lens. His knowledge of the subject, sensitivity to his clients' vision, and ability to improvise under pressure result in images that are authentic and fresh.

Clients trust Eric to deliver exciting and beautiful work whether he's shooting in his San Francisco studio, directing a film crew on location, or travelling abroad on assignment. Current collaborations include Robert Mondavi, Williams Sonoma, Bon Apetit, and numerous cookbooks.

Eric was recently nominated for a James Beard award for 'Tartine Bread', a cookbook he styled and photographed.

Francesco and Nataly Majo are internationally-acclaimed food and lifestyle photographers. The pair are married and work together as a team, after meeting in Italy where they both studied at the European Institute of Design in Milan. Francesco studied Photography and also later earned a degree in Travel Journalism in London, while Nataly moved from Colombia to study Art Direction and Graphic Design.

Clients include House & Garden, Condé Nast Traveler UK, Elle, GQ, Sale & Pepe, Saveurs, Vogue Gioiello, Bertolli, Buitoni, Carrefour, Knorr, Kraft Foods, McDonald's, Giovanni Rana, Nescafé, Perugina, Philip Morris, Sony PlayStation, Unilever, Leo Burnett, JWT, McCann Erickson, Saatchi&Saatchi, TBWA and Young & Rubicam.

Before making the leap to New York City, the pair lived together in Milan, London and Paris. Combined, they speak over six languages. Francesco and Nataly love to travel and explore the flavours and cuisines the world has to offer.

Gaby Luque was born in Mexico City and studied photography at the Escuela Activa de Fotografia, in addition to following an intensive course on digital photography at the Tec de Monterrey. After finishing her studies, she began working as a freelance photographer.

Gaby is in constant pursuit of achieving the perfect commercial image, yet always applies a touch of art to her work. 

Her clients include Ford, Hampton Inn & Suites Hotel, Tupperware and IFE, among others.

Gokce Erenmemisoglu is a multi award-winning photographer based in both Istanbul and Paris. As a several-times Epica, Cannes Lions, Goldem Drum and NYFest award-winner, he also won the Gourmand Best Cookbook Photography Award in Paris in 2008 with his book 'net:425 gr'.

Gokce offers his clients a wide range of skills from studio to worldwide location shoots, using Sinar and Phase One high-end digital and post production with retouching, image manipulation, CGI and illustration techniques. 

He is also a Getty Images contributor, which lets him travel and work worldwide.

His professional images have appeared in the biggest campaigns for global accounts including Vodafone, Adidas, American Express, Burger King, McDonald’s, Peugeot, Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen, Sbarro, Tefal,  Siemens, Philips, and many others.

James and James Productions is a full service still and motion photography studio located in Los Angeles, California. Bruce James and Jennifer James, a husband and wife team, are both photographers specialising in shooting imagery for high-end food and beverage clientele.

With Bruce's exclusive training in New York and San Francisco where he worked beside many well-known photographers, combined with Jennifer's in-depth training at Brooks Institute of Photography where she received a BA in Advertising/Illustration Photography, the couple has worked in the photographic industry for over 25 years.

Backed by an amazing crew of talented individuals, James and James Productions welcomes client collaboration from pre- to post production. Shooting for many leaders in the food and beverage industry, Bruce and Jennifer continue to provide their clients with cutting-edge visuals for food packaging, promotion and advertising.

Jody Horton's work has appeared in The New York Times, Food & Wine, Esquire, GQ, Southern Living, Texas Monthly and Garden & Gun. Commercial clients include Whole Foods, JW Marriott and Whataburger. He is currently completing cookbook projects for Rizzoli, Chronicle Books and Random House.

Jody works on location and at his studio in Austin, TX.

Featured in this Spotlight are recent commissions for food packaging, created by Jonathan Pollock and his experienced team.

One of Jonathan's images was also nominated in the B&W Awards 2012. Check out his website for the image.

Josep Maria Roca is a high-quality photographer who specialises in food, advertising and people photography. His studio is located in the centre of Barcelona.

He has won awards at festivals including: Cannes Gold Lion, Gold New York Festival, LAUS and LUX.

Josep's clients include Martini, Cruzcampo, Danone, Knorr, Pans & Co., Codorniu, Puig Cosmetics, Granini, Gallina Blanca, Renfe, Cepsa, Nescafe, Audi, Saab and many more.

 

Drawing on his years of experience and with a passion for the finer details, Jörk Hettmann has been photographing food in his studio located south of Dusseldorf since 1990.

Many renowned food companies shoot their advertising materials, packaging and billboards at the 400 m² studio, which features a fully equipped kitchen, a luxuriant stock of props, and everything necessary for successful food photography and corresponding special effects.

The studio equipment was recently expanded to include film gear. An extensive photo archive supplements the studio's services, as well as in-house post production that covers all areas of electronic image processing, from simple retouching to ready-to-print approved compositions.

Knowing the importance of every ingredient, José Luis Pelegrin dedicates special attention to the lighting of each element in his still life compositions. He has always had a sixth sense for detail, and together with his mastery of photographic techniques he constantly exceeds clients' expectations.

Working out of his own studio in the centre of Barcelona, Jose Luis' clients include Bimbo, Buitoni, Danone, Findus, Kellogg's, La Sirena, Nescafé, Nestlé, Pastas Gallo and PepsiCo. 

Who doesn't love spending an afternoon baking? OK, a lot of people, but one person who loves to bake and is happy to teach us what to do with our mixing bowls and rolling pins is Sybil Kapoor. Karen Thomas recently had the pleasure of photographing the treats that came out of the kitchen for the 'Simply Baking' book written by Sybil for The National Trust.

Karen has also recently finished working on an eight-day flower shoot for Waitrose, before which she shot both the Marks and Spencer and Waitrose Christmas press packs.

Karen has recently moved to a beautiful bigger studio in Hoxton.

Klug Studio specialises in food and beverage photography for advertising, packaging and editorial clients.

Backed by a great crew working out of his daylight studio in Denver, Jeff has worked on recent campaigns for Kraft Foods, Dominos Pizza, Kellogg’s, Wendy’s, White Wave Foods, Qdoba, Smashburger, Werther’s Original and Milka Chocolate.

Professional food photography by M17CreativeStudios gives clients a guaranteed taste for it! The company's large new rental facilities are complete with a specifically furnished food studio, including a 20m-long gourmet-standard kitchen and separate cold storage area.

As experienced food specialists, even large volume jobs present little problem. Clients can calmly depend on M17's food photographers, its professional food team and the studio's state-of-the-art equipment.

Margaret Stepien's versatile photographic experience has led her to specialise for the past few years in everything to do with food, whether it be the interiors of a restaurant, capturing the ambience of a kitchen, or producing photos for food campaigns, books, packaging and recipe illustration.

Margaret's interest in the creativity of food photography also encompasses plate styling, which she also does herself.

A comment from one of her recent magazine clients really sums up her work:

"I’m convinced that if I lick my screen, I might just get a taste!"

Peter Cassidy has had a busy year getting baked!

July sees the publication of Paul Hollywood's long anticipated 'How to Bake' book.

And to shed the kilos after all those breads and cakes, Peter has been shooting on location in the Sardinian sunshine for a new diet book with Gino D'Acampo.

After spending over 30 years watching the world change through his camera lens, there’s little that Shawn Driman hasn’t seen - and photographed.

Primarily focusing on food photography, Shawn’s unique understanding of lighting and his insistence on “getting it right first time” means that clients receive images that require very little additional work. He enjoys long-standing relationships with a number of major convenience and fast food chains and their agencies in South Africa, as well as the large corporates who manufacture staple brands.

Shawn’s other commercial enterprise 'Living Landscapes' has taken him quite literally around the world. A quiet individual with astonishing presence, Shawn says, “when I can actually feel the energy of a place, it seems to infuse the photograph. There is another force, more than just me and my camera. I can feel it happening."

Clients include a number of well known South African architects and interior designers as well as commissions for private international investors. Visit his dedicated 'Living Landscapes' page and commercial website for more information.

Sofie Delauw is a professional food photographer based in Florence, Italy. She works both on location and from her natural daylight studio. Sofie partners with restaurateurs, renowned chefs and food/wine producers. Her editorial work has been published in the US, Italy and Belgium.

Aside from being a full-time photographer, she runs thecuriouseater - a photography blog about foodie culture in Italy. 

Her clients include Endemol.it, San Pelligrino, La Cucina Italiana, Jolly Caffe and Gastronomia Toscana.

For her stock images she is represented by Photocuisine.

Tim and Zoe have completed photography of tapestry kit cushions for Hugh Ehrman, a favourite long-term client, going back to Tim’s still life shooting roots before food took over. Most of the shots were done on location around the house instead of building sets in the studio, creating interesting images at the cost of domestic upheaval and chaos.

The baking part-work continues to produce cakes, biscuits and brownies to tempt the unwary.

Zoe is sourcing backgrounds and props for the next book of Basque recipes with chef Ash Mair that is due to start in a couple of weeks.

Tony Briscoe is a London-based food and drink photographer. His photography has a fresh, natural, graphic style which he captures whether on location or in his Clerkenwell studio.

Tony continues to work with an extensive number of advertising, PR, packaging and editorial clients. Some of his recent work includes Kraft’s ‘Choccy Philly’ campaign and photography for Philadelphia’s new innovative lenticular packaging.

He has also been involved in new campaigns for Prosciutto di San Daniele and Grana Padano Cheese working alongside the chef Giancarlo Caldesi.

Tony is currently shooting another cookbook with recipes written by acclaimed chefs to be published later this year.

To see more of Tony's work visit his recently updated website or contact him for his folio.