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showcase magazine Oct 2023 united kingdom issue 939
Karen Thomas food & drink photographers
It is time to start sharpening your pumpkin carving tools and planning your best ghoulish outfit. To get you in the mood for our spookiest month of the year (hopefully!), here is a selection of Halloween shots by Karen Thomas.
From a pumpkin vomiting its innards for Marks and Spencer to sparklers lighting up the seasonal lattes for Costa, Karen has enjoyed shooting our strangest yearly spooky festival.
Karen Thomas is a London-based food and drinks photographer and director with over 20 years of experience producing beautifully inspiring images.
Karen has an extensive client list that includes some of the biggest names in food, such as M&S, Tesco, Costa, Waitrose, Sainsbury's, McDonald's and Lidl, to name just a few.
She works with the very best food stylists to produce the highest quality of work for which she is well known.
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spotlight magazine Jul 2023 food & drink photography & motion
London: Karen Thomas
There are not many things Karen loves more than an excuse to create stunning splashes with beautiful looking drinks. Her recent shoot for the bubble tea company Purcha was an absolute joy. Not only were the shots fun to create but the added bonus of being able to sample these amazing drinks wasn’t missed. Karen also directed a powerful video for the brand which is also featured in this Showcase.
Karen also recently had the pleasure of shooting Madhuka teas for OForest. Shown here are three of the colourful images that helped the recent exciting launch of the brand.
Franklin Lade is a fast-expanding new company that manufactures beautiful, stylish glass jars and other storage. Karen created an authentic homely setting to showcase their high-end products. Lastly in this showcase are two mouth-watering shots of Marks and Spencer meal deals. A feast to behold!
Karen Thomas is a London-based photographer and director with over 20 years of experience in producing beautifully inspiring images. Karen has an extensive client list that includes some of the biggest names in food such as M&S, Costa, Waitrose, Sainsbury's, McDonald's and Lidl to name just a few. She works with the very best food stylists in order to produce the high quality of work for which she is well known.
Karen fell in love with photography at a young age and the passion has never left her. She loves nothing more than getting stuck into an exciting project whether it’s a big advertising shoot, editorial project or some of her own experimental work. It might be a busman’s holiday, but in her spare time, she loves nothing more than cooking!
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spotlight magazine Nov 2022 food & drink photography & motion
London: Karen Thomas
Karen Thomas is a London-based photographer and director with over 20 years of experience in producing beautifully inspiring images. Karen has an extensive client list that includes some of the biggest names in food such as M&S, Costa, Waitrose, Sainsbury's, McDonald's and Lidl to name just a few. Karen works with the very best food stylists in order to produce the high quality of work for which she is well known.
Karen fell in love with photography at a young age, and the passion has never left her. She loves nothing more than getting stuck in to an exciting project, whether it’s a big advertising shoot, editorial project or some of her own experimental work. It might be a busman’s holiday, but in her spare time, she loves nothing more than cooking!
In this Spotlight Karen is showcasing her recent Christmas and Halloween campaigns for Marks and Spencer and Tesco, and some delicious Mexican food shots for Mesa Taqueria.
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spotlight magazine Oct 2022 food & drink photography & motion
London: Karen Thomas
Karen Thomas is a London-based photographer and director with over 20 years of experience in producing beautifully inspiring images.
Karen has an extensive client list that includes some of the biggest names in food such as M&S, Costa, Waitrose, Sainsbury's, McDonald's and Lidl to name just a few. Karen works with the very best food stylists in order to produce the high quality of work for which she is well known.
Karen fell in love with photography at a young age and the passion has never left her. She loves nothing more than getting stuck in to an exciting project, whether it is a big advertising shoot, editorial project or some of her own experimental work. It might be a busman’s holiday, but in her spare time, she loves nothing more than cooking!
In this Spotlight, Karen is showcasing some of her recent work for M&S, Franklin Lade, BBC Good Food Magazine, along with lots of exciting new personal work.
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spotlight magazine Mar 2022 women in photography & film
London: Karen Thomas
Karen Thomas is a London-based photographer and director with over 20 years of experience in producing beautifully inspiring images. Karen has an extensive client list that includes some of the biggest names in food such as M&S, Costa, Waitrose, Sainsbury's, McDonald's and Lidl to name just a few.
She works with the very best food stylists in order to produce the high quality of work for which she is well known.
Karen fell in love with photography at a young age and the passion has never left her. She loves nothing more than getting stuck into an exciting project whether it’s a big advertising shoot, editorial project or some of her own experimental work. It might be a busman’s holiday, but in her spare time, she loves nothing more than cooking!
In this Spotlight Karen is featuring some recent tests and work for Marks and Spencer, Fwip Gelatos, Costa and Walnut Magazine.
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spotlight magazine Jan 2022 food & drink photography & motion
London: Karen Thomas
Karen Thomas is a London-based photographer and director with over 20 years of experience in producing beautifully inspiring images. Karen has an extensive client list that includes some of the biggest names in food such as M&S, Costa, Waitrose, Sainsbury's, McDonald's and Lidl to name just a few. Karen works with the very best food stylists in order to produce the high quality of work for which she is well known.
Karen fell in love with photography at a young age and the passion has never left her. She loves nothing more than getting stuck into an exciting project whether it’s a big advertising shoot, editorial project or some of her own experimental work. It might be a busman’s holiday, but in her spare time, she loves nothing more than cooking!
In this Spotlight Karen is showcasing a personal project for Veganuary featuring coconut milk; some fun and colourful shots for BBC Good Food; a few shots from a herb project for R&G Fresh; a Christmas feature for Olive Magazine; four images of Plant Kitchen products for Marks and Spencer, and a gorgeously indulgent whippy coffee for Fwip Gelatos.
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spotlight magazine Nov 2021 food & drink photography & motion
London: Karen Thomas
Karen Thomas is a London-based photographer and director with over 20 years of experience in producing beautifully inspiring images.
Karen has an extensive client list that includes some of the biggest names in food such as M&S, Costa, Waitrose, Sainsbury's, McDonald's and Lidl to name just a few.
She works with the very best food stylists in order to produce the high quality of work for which she is well known.
Karen fell in love with photography at a young age and the passion has never left her. She loves nothing more than getting stuck in to an exciting project whether it’s a big advertising shoot, editorial project or some of her own experimental work. It might be a busman’s holiday, but in her spare time, she loves nothing more than cooking!
In this Spotlight, Karen is showcasing some of her recent work for the fun and colourful gelato ice cream brand FWIP.
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spotlight magazine Sep 2021 food & drink photography & motion
London: Karen Thomas
Karen Thomas is a London-based photographer and director with over 20 years of experience in producing beautifully inspiring images. Karen has an extensive client list that includes some of the biggest names in food such as M&S, Costa, Waitrose, Sainsbury's, McDonald's and Lidl to name just a few. Karen works with the very best food stylists in order to produce the high quality of work for which she is well known.
Karen fell in love with photography at a young age and the passion has never left her. She loves nothing more than getting stuck in to an exciting project whether it’s a big advertising shoot, editorial project or some of her own experimental work. It might be a busman’s holiday, but in her spare time, she loves nothing more than cooking!
In this Spotlight, Karen is showcasing some of her vibrant and colourful projects that she has been shooting recently. From sticky Sichuan pork ribs to chai caramel chocolate brownies, the delicious food featured is sure to make your mouth water.
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spotlight magazine Jul 2021 food & drink photography & motion
London: Karen Thomas
No Flakes? No problem. It was reported in the news that the Cadbury’s 99 Flake was in short supply, fortunately there are plenty of Flakes to go around apparently, but this news prompted Karen and Pete Ryan from Chuck Studios to shoot a test with some fun alternatives. Bacon and maple syrup or Curly Wurly and sprinkles anyone?
This Spotlight also includes a feature for Walnut Magazine, some still life food tests and Karen’s new work for Marks and Spencer.
Also featured in this Spotlight are Karen’s new videos for Circulon and her own personal film: 'From Here To There'.
Karen Thomas is a London-based food and still life photographer. From editorial to advertising, Karen works with some of the biggest names in food including M&S, Costa, Sainsbury's, McDonald's and Nestlé.
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spotlight magazine Jan 2021 food & drink photography & motion
London: Karen Thomas
Karen Thomas is a London-based food and drink photographer and director. Her 1300sq ft studio in Elephant and Castle is where she creates beautiful images for her extensive client base which includes Marks and Spencer, Costa, McDonald’s, Nestle, Lidl, Tesco, and Vue, to name a few.
Karen has been shooting advertising, packaging, and editorial commissions for over 20 years and is always hungry for the next exciting project.
This Spotlight features her eye-catching Christmas Lidl adverts; one of the shots from the Costa Christmas ad campaign, which dropped on people's doormats across the country; some beautiful shots for Marks and Spencer; a mouthwatering chocolate torte for Betty Crocker; and a snowy white cream bun shot featuring falling coconut flakes which beautifully adorned the cover of December’s Olive Magazine.
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spotlight magazine Nov 2020 food & drink photography & motion
London: Karen Thomas
Karen’s love of food is evident in her still and motion work. She has spent the last 20 years passionately capturing food at its best and in the last few years, she has also enjoyed directing impressive motion work too.
This Spotlight feature begins with two beautiful Christmas desserts shot for BBC Good Food Magazine. The next three images are from the new eye-catching M&S party food packaging range.
Following on are two shots from a recent test shoot of delicate salmon with beetroot salt, a couple of images from the new Gastro M&S range, and lastly, three images from a vegan shoot featuring fiery tofu tacos.
The Association of Photographers awards were announced last month and Karen was thrilled to be a finalist with her Asian food film. The film can also be viewed in this Spotlight.
Karen’s recent projects include shooting the fantastic new Lidl Christmas ads which will be released very soon. She has also just completed shooting an exciting array of projects including the new range for Shwartz spices; delicious Old El Paso wraps; and more from the classic M&S Count on Us range. She is now excited to start filming a stunning new project for Circulon in December.
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spotlight magazine Apr 2020 food & drink photography
London: Karen Thomas
Karen’s love of food is clear to see in her still and motion work. She has spent the last 20 years passionately capturing food at its best and in the last few years she has also enjoyed directing impressive motion work too.
This Spotlight feature begins with some exciting new tests that were shot in collaboration with food stylist Katie Giovanni and prop stylist Alexander Breeze. They luckily managed to squeeze a day in the studio together just before lockdown and had a fantastic time shooting lots of different seafood dishes.
Following on from these images are shots for M&S (Meal in a Bag, Gastro packaging), Birds Eye (Green Cuisine, plant-based Swedish style meatballs) and lastly an advert for Carnation for Tesco that Karen had fun shooting on location in Kentish Town.
Now during the lockdown, Karen is keeping herself busy working on personal projects whilst also working on logistics for some upcoming shoots with skeletal teams that will take place once the restrictions have relaxed.
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spotlight magazine Apr 2020 stock photo & video and image libraries & licensing
London: Karen Thomas
Karen’s love of food is clear to see in her still and motion work. She has spent the last 20 years passionately capturing food at it’s best and in the last few years, she has also enjoyed directing impressive motion work too.
Karen started the year with a major project for Betty Crocker that saw her creating beautiful kitchen sets of baking products. Then came McDonald’s iced lattes, both stills and motion work for Leo Burnett and TMSW.
Now during lockdown, Karen is keeping herself busy working on personal projects whilst also working on logistics for some upcoming shoots with skeletal teams that will take place once the restrictions have relaxed.
With shoots being put on hold for now, Karen has been releasing significant amounts of new work to Stockfood picture library. All of the images and videos in this Spotlight feature can be found on the Stockfood website and can be purchased royalty-free. Visit here and check out Karen’s work, which is being updated with hundreds of new images over the next few weeks.
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spotlight magazine Jun 2019 food & drink photography & motion
London: Karen Thomas
London-based food and drink photographer and director Karen Thomas recently moved into a brand new, 1300 sq. ft. studio in Elephant and Castle - and she hasn't stopped since.
Most recently, she was thrilled to be part of the new M&S campaign doing what she does best - bringing a beautifully natural and foodie aspect to the work. Whether it's pouring a dash of tonic into a delicious G&T, creating the perfect pizza cheese pull or showing off the frankly outrageous Big Daddy burger that feeds four people, it's obvious Karen is in her element and loves every moment.
Along with her regular stills campaigns for Costa, Karen has recently been directing some new moving image work, due out in September.
Her other recent projects have included more directing work for McDonald's, Vue Cinema and Nestlé, and she is about to start the Costa Christmas campaign.
For commissions, Karen can always be contacted through her agent Horton-Stephens (TVC commissions through her production company, Snapper).
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spotlight magazine Nov 2018 food & drink photography & motion
London: Karen Thomas
Karen Thomas is a London-based food and drink photographer and director. In addition to being represented by Horton-Stephens for her stills work, she is proud to announce that she has joined the production agency Snapper, who will represent her for moving image.
Karen loves shooting and is never far from her camera - whether it’s creating beautiful splashes in coffee for Costa, cross sections of trifles for Marks & Spencer, or juicy steaks just for fun - all featured in this Spotlight.
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spotlight magazine Sep 2018 food & drink photography & motion
London: Karen Thomas
Karen Thomas is a passionate London-based food and still life photographer and director. Known for striking stills campaigns for Marks and Spencer, Waitrose, Lidl, Sainsbury’s and Costa, she has also been directing some beautiful and exciting moving images, some of which are featured in this Spotlight.
Recent clients include McDonald’s and Vue Cinema.
Ever wondered what happens behind the scenes at KTP? Take a look at the video in this Spotlight and you’ll see what the team get up to.
If you passed by the IMAX in Waterloo recently you may have spotted one of these images lit up in full glory. It might be a busman’s holiday, but in her spare time, she loves nothing more than cooking!
Karen is represented by Horton-Stephens.
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spotlight magazine Nov 2017 christmas advertising photography
London: Karen Thomas
Karen Thomas has just launched a new website.
Karen is a London-based food, drinks and still life photographer/director. Early in 2017 - after working two decades with some of the top names in food - Karen was excited to announce her signing with the prestigious agent, Horton-Stephens.
As a result of this new collaboration, Karen has worked on dynamic new ad campaigns for Sainsbury’s with Weiden and Kennedy, the soon-to-be-launched Lidl Christmas ad campaign with TBWA, and Dolmio ad campaigns with both AMV and JKR.
In addition to these new projects, Karen has continued her commitment to her long-time clients M&S and Waitrose, and her editorial shoots for Sainsbury’s magazine and Waitrose Kitchen. Recently, she has completed work on a ground-breaking new title from Renee Elliot, founder of Planet Organic: 'What To Eat and How To Eat It'.
Featured in this Spotlight are Christmas campaigns that Karen has shot for M&S, Waitrose and Lidl.
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spotlight magazine Nov 2017 food & drink photography & motion
London: Karen Thomas
Karen Thomas is a London-based food, drinks and still life photographer and director. Early in 2017, after working two decades with some of the top names in food, Karen was excited to announce her signing with the prestigious agent, Horton-Stephens.
As a result of this new collaboration, Karen has worked on dynamic new ad campaigns for Sainsbury’s with Weiden and Kennedy, the soon-to-be-launched Lidl Christmas campaign with TBWA, and Dolmio campaigns with both AMV and JKR.
In addition to these new projects, Karen has continued her commitment to her long-time clients M&S and Waitrose, and her editorial shoots for Sainsbury’s magazine and Waitrose Kitchen. Recently, she has completed work on a ground-breaking new title from Renee Elliot, founder of Planet Organic - 'What To Eat and How To Eat It'.
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spotlight magazine Apr 2017 food & drink photography + motion
London: Karen Thomas
At the beginning of the year, Karen Thomas made the decision to start a new chapter and is now delighted to be represented by Horton-Stephens.
Karen is currently working on the new advertising campaign for Wieden & Kennedy for Sainsbury's and has recently finished working on the new in-store campaign for Waitrose.
It's nearly Easter and with that Karen's work will soon be seen celebrating the occasion with her delicious shots for M&S.
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spotlight magazine Sep 2016 food & drink photography + motion
London: Karen Thomas
Karen Thomas is a passionate London-based food and still life photographer. Her interest in food precedes her 16 year career as a photographer and also keeps her busy in her own kitchen when she’s not shooting.
From editorial to advertising, Karen has worked with some of the biggest names in food including M&S, Waitrose, McDonald's and Nestlé. A photograph is nothing if the light isn’t right and Karen loves to work with both daylight and studio lighting in order to create atmospheric and beautiful work.
The images Karen is showcasing are from this year's beautiful M&S Christmas press pack. Karen recently shot the new Sushi Daily posters for Waitrose as well as new cheese brochures. Now it’s back to Christmas, but with Waitrose this time, after which Karen starts an exciting new book project.
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spotlight magazine Jun 2016 food & drink photography + motion
London: Karen Thomas
Karen Thomas is a passionate London-based food and still life photographer. Her interest in food precedes her 16 year career as a photographer and also keeps her busy in her own kitchen when she’s not shooting. From editorial to advertising, Karen has worked with some of the biggest names in food including M&S, Waitrose, McDonalds and Nestlé. A photograph is nothing if the light isn’t right and Karen loves to work with both daylight and studio lighting in order to create atmospheric and beautiful work.
Karen has been shooting Christmas 2016 for M&S followed by their Taste of Summer campaign. She also recently shot the new look packaging for Old El Paso, advertising for Masala Zone and there are two new book projects in the pipeline, along with advertising for Waitrose and editorial shoots for clients such as Sainsbury magazine.