FOOD, DRINK & STILL LIFE PHOTOGRAPHY Feb 2007

Alan Marsh operates from his warehouse studio in Borough, southeast London, where he has been contributing to the continued success of various international food and drinks brands for some years.

These have included Glenfiddich, Balvenie, Grants Family Reserve, and Plymouth Gin, as well as Kettles and Discovery Foods, and have involved a range of consumer and direct mail advertising, packaging, public relations, and web-based commissions.

In addition, Alan works for various food-related magazine and book publishers.

Facilities currently include high-end digital capture and delivery, as well as traditional analogue where appropriate.

Ben Monk is a London-based photographer specialising in food and still life. 

He recently worked with Procter & Gamble on the European re-launch of one of their core products and has had other recent commissions from Bird's Eye, Duchy Original and Sainsbury's.

Ben continually 'strives to make everyday objects desirable, constantly blurring the boundaries between food and still life photography.'

He mainly shoots digitally. However, when the brief allows, embraces the art of shooting on film.

Growing up, Bernd Wichmann 'lived and breathed the art and craft of photography' as he watched his photographer father in their native Germany. Finding it the medium where he could best express himself, Wichmann completed a degree in communication design before starting his career as an assistant on advertising and fashion productions.

A freelance photographer since 1998, he now works with advertising agencies such as Publicis, Grey, Ogilvy and BBDO. 

Clients include Zurich Financial, Alldata, BB Promotion, BPG Consulting, Buecher.de, Carlos Murphy's, Consors, e.on Venture Partners, Oki, Telekom and Wellpharma.

He is represented by Corbis Artist Representation.

Photographers Ulrike Boehm and Julia Jungfer have been working together for two years in Munich and Berlin.

On commercial productions and editorials, they specialise in still, interiors and architecture.

Their focus is on 'creativity and concept embellished arrangements', and they cover the entire process from layout, image idea, on set and up to the final visualisation.

They recently completed a 12-page shoot for Style And Family Tunes magazine entitled 'Bad Weather'. Across twelve pages, they produced wind, hail, storm and snow.

Carsten Eichner specialises in still and food photography and has his own digital, fully equipped daylight studio in Hamburg.

He has international experience working for agencies and editorial magazines - both in the studio and on location.

Three established photographers working from their centrally located, well-equipped Great Portland Street Studios, in London's West End.

Chris Biggs specialises in food, drink and still life photography, with recent clients including Pizza Hut, McDonald's, Gordon's, Bacardi and InBev.

Simon Barnes is a drinks, beauty and lifestyle photographer. Originally from Cape Town, he has contacts in both markets, and clients include Pimms, Guinness, Smirnoff, Malibu, Gillette and World Duty Free.

Sarah Jane Leggett does food and fashion photography. She has recently been kept busy with the latest McDonald's menu rebrand. Other clients include TGI Fridays, O'Neill's, and Starbucks.

Christine Hanscomb's 'lifelong passion for food and photography' has not abated in the 20 years since she started.

She says that she is as excited as ever by the possibilities presented by new technologies and changing attitudes. Working from her studio in London, she has enthusiastically embraced the new digital era 'because of the speed and greater immediacy it brings'.

Recent clients include Haagen Dazs, Sainsbury and AMV BBDO. She has worked for most of the major advertising agencies in London, Paris and Milan - specialising in food and babies - for clients such as Nestlé, Campbell's, Marks & Spencer, Pampers, Waitrose, Tesco, Cow & Gate and Lindt.

Personal projects include creating a limited edition book 'Flavours of Italy' - hand-bound, hand-printed, available for purchase at £275.

She has also combined her love of underwater diving with her skills in baby photography - notably when she worked with Dr Francoise Barbira Freedman, the Cambridge medical anthropologist; together they produced two books of babies underwater.

Future projects include trips to China and Himalayas.

'Capturing the very essence of a subject in a photograph is the most important artistic challenge of my work, and it is this skill that my clients depend upon when they entrust their work to me,' says New York-based still life photographer, David Lewis Taylor.

With his respect for the craft of photography and enthusiastic embrace of constantly evolving technology, Taylor's images convey purity and simplicity.

'For my commercial clients, I strive to find innovative ways to define their products and illustrate their message with boldness and honesty. In my personal work, I am inspired by the expression of movement in great fashion photographs. Translating and infusing that movement into two dimensions is both stimulating and rewarding'.

The trio of photographers and a digital imaging artist who comprise Fabrik Studios walk a fine line between art and commerce.

Thanks to a proven track record, the four young men from Switzerland - Adrian Mueller, Sylvan Müller, Beat Brechbühl and Simon Eugster - are often given the freedom to get creative, and 'produce extraordinary still life and food images that clients not only want to publish, but also display on their own walls'.

The team divides its time between two continents and two studios - Lucerne (Switzerland) and New York - working with clients that have recently included BBDO, DDB, Euro RSCG, Grey, Harrison & Star, JWT, Lowe and McGarry Bowen.

Together with its own food stylists and TV cooks, Food-Foto-Köln conjures up 'irresistible gourmet highlights to whet the appetite'

Since 1972, Jürgen Holz and Christian Pompetzki's concept has been to create images of food - be they in advertising, magazines or cook books - that people want to bite into.

The company works with clients and agencies to develop and design concepts that turn any food, even the lowly croissant, tomato or a piece of cheese, into a virtual treat to eat.

The use of digital technology and an emphasis on light composition achieves depth and sharpness of image, as well as an appetising result.

Gareth has embarked on another busy year under Process's wing.

Continuing to shoot from his natural daylight studio in South London, his regular clients include Marks & Spencer, Sainsbury's, Tesco, Waitrose, ASDA, Co-op and Harrods.

Gareth shoots advertising, packaging, publishing and editorial. His work has a distinct, clean graphic style and a creative modernity.

Currently developing a show reel under the guidance of Annex films, Gareth continues to be one of London's most sought after food photographers.

As you can see from these photographs, Hilary Moore's work as a food photographer speaks for itself. Her carefully lit, framed and presented shots aim to 'leave the viewer with the desire to taste the shot', which she says, 'is surely the aim of the job...'

As one of the UK's leading specialist food photographers, her client list ranges from Carte D'Or, through to her latest re-launches for Chicken Tonight, Birds Eye, Amoy stir fry sauces, Asda, Cadbury Easter eggs, Heinz and onto the current stills for the Burger King and Oxo ads.

Hilary has her own studio in Vauxhall London, which features natural daylight, a fully equipped kitchen, car park and easy Tube and British Rail travel connections.

Jose Manual Vidaurre was born in Segovia, Spain and soon moved to Venezuela. While in Caracas, he left his engineering studies to become a self-taught commercial photographer and retoucher, moving more recently first conventional and now digital.

He now works for US and international clients from his studio in Miami, where he he resides.

Clients include Procter & Gamble, Citibank, Texaco, Seagrams, Nestle, Bacardi, Anheuser-Busch, American Express, Mattel, Kellogs, Duracell, Del Monte, Honda, Ford, Heinz, SC Johnson, Gatorade, Absolut, Nabisco, Johnson & Johnson, Kodak, Kraft, Knorr, Max Factor, Pantene, Secret, Hilton, CocaCola, Unisys, General Electric, Sony, Show Business, Rolex, Quaker, Siemens, Fanta, Unilever, Oreo, Lux, NCR and Pirelli.

In 2004, he won IPA Photographer of the Year in Special Effects. He also has a list of 49 award certificates and trophies from three continents including The London International Advertising Award, The New York Festivals, FIAP, The Color Awards and Creativity Annual among others.
 

Michael Kay's passion for food and high-quality images is evident from his work, and you can see a few recent examples here.

Mike has been shooting food for over 20 years, and has a current client list that includes Flora, Hellmann's, Slim Fast, Bertolli and Aldi.

The projects he works on are varied, and cover advertising and editorial as well as recipe cards and special promotions.

His large studios, with well-equipped kitchen facilities, are in Croydon, 20 minutes by train from the centre of London.

Mike has solely worked digitally for six years and he provides retouching and postproduction services.

Paul Webster is considered one of London's leading food photographers and says that he still enjoys new challenges.

Over the years, he has shot for all the major UK supermarkets and food suppliers, with his most recent work being for Slimfast, Waitrose, Tussauds, World Duty Free and location shoots for Abbaye de la Bussiere near Dijon and Amberley Castle, Sussex.

His new daylight garden studio is close to Hammersmith Bridge in west London.

Between 1 - 4 March, Paul will be exhibiting some of his manipulated images at 'Form', the design exhibition at Olympia, London. The chilis and artichokes are examples of the exhibited work.

Simon Brown is based in London and photographs food, people, interiors and fashion.

Clients include: AMV/BBDO, Sainsbury's, Jigsaw Junior, John Rocha, British Airways, Waterford Crystal, Ryvita, Marks & Spencer, Waitrose and many more.

He is a contributing editor to Waitrose Food Illustrated.

His agent is Jo Clark.

From his fully digitalised studio in London, Simon produces elegant food and still life campaigns for leading advertising agencies.

Recent clients are Bertolli, Flora, Gordon's, Hovis, KFC, Kellogg's, M&S, McDonald's, Nestlé, Pfizer, RSPCA Freedom Foods and Royal Mail.

Simon is represented by Catherine Collins.

Tim Bowden photographs food and drink for major brands, supermarkets, food manufacturers and distributors. His shots are used for packaging, websites, point of sale, marketing, advertising etc.

He has been specialising in food photography for the past 16 years, working either on location or from his centrally located London studio in Shoreditch.

His clients include all the major London design groups as well as Tesco, Sainsbury's, Marks & Spencer and many leading brands such as Manor Bakeries, Bernard Matthews, Heinz, Uncle Bens and Quorn.

Tim's studio has a large kitchen and prep area and home economists are on hand to prepare food to the highest standard for photography. All photography is shot using a high res digital camera and the images can be made print ready with CMYK conversions and proofs made in-house.

Tim says he is happy to discuss all individual requirements from one shot to a complete range.