food & drink photography Jan 2009

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Carol Sharp is renowned for her intuitive composition and lighting skills along with an excellent attention to detail. She regularly shoots for Sainsbury's, Waitrose and Marks & Spencer, as well as for other major brands.

Carol recently used her imaginative and delicate touch to help create a new look for the complete range of 52 Twinings tea packs. With the emphasis on 'fresh' and 'natural', she made use of her specialist knowledge and contacts in the sourcing and care of the leaves and natural ingredients.

Thanks to constant experimentation and many years of experience, Carol delivers highly creative and technically proficient results with ease.

Gerrit Buntrock is a food and drink specialist with over 15 years experience working from his two studios in west London as well as on location. Studio One has beautiful daylight while the other is equipped for blackout. Both have lavishly equipped kitchens.

It has been a busy twelve months for Gerrit: he worked on a packaging range of over 90 lines for Waitrose called 'As Good As Going Out'. This was followed by work on a complete redesign of Yoplait's range of yoghurts, desserts and fromage frais under the Weight Watchers brand. In addition, Gerrit worked on Weight Watchers packaging and ads for cakes, biscuits, snacks, ice creams and pizzas. Other clients include Tesco, Sharwoods, Branston, Walkers Shortbreads and JKR / Bewleys. Editorial clients included GQ Magazine and Bloomberg Markets Magazine (New York), who commission regular location shoots.

Gerrit shoots on a fully colour managed high-end digital system. He is passionate about his craft and loves solving problems.

Anne-Marie Hochkeppler and Edith Schmitt have been successfully working together at their photo studio in Cologne for over 20 years. During this long period the pair have gained a huge amount of experience in many different areas and have become specialists in both still life and food photography.

Product affinity and the care taken to show as much detail as possible are the two most important aspects of their work.

Client ideas are always the most import starting point for Hochkeppler and Schmitt. Through their pictorial language and composition they regularly create impressive images.

James Murphy continues to work with an impressive number of editorial, packaging and advertising clients.

More photographs can be viewed on his website and in his portfolio.

Jean Cazals shoots from his daylight kitchen studio in Notting Hill as well as on location around the world for various international magazines, design and advertising clients. He has a large choice of props and backgrounds at hand. Jean's work is easily recognisable through his subtle mix of creative styling and food presentation. He has worked on many cookery books with numerous top chefs, and has been commended with various awards.

Jean recently worked on campaigns in Italy and France. He also shot books on French brasseries, Japanese food and romantic locations (on vegetable cakes!). For 2009, he already has a list of chefs, chocolate and art food books to work through.

His client list includes M&S, Waitrose, Sainsbury's, Danone, Radisson, Boots, Findus and Mc Donald's. Jean also shoots TV commercials and is represented by Spoke Films.

Jean Cazals is represented in the UK, France and Italy. Prints are available to purchase direct by email. Check the website to see more of his work or to request a folio.

Jo van den Berg is an extraordinary photographer. Clients value his photographs that are awash with light and in which he stages seemingly ordinary objects in a beautiful, one-of-a-kind way. Due to his decades of experience Jo is able to efficiently implement highly complicated tasks, and has been a consistent and competent partner for his clients. Assigned by the most renowned culinary magazines, he has travelled around France, Italy and Spain looking over the shoulders of celebrated chefs such as Bocuse and Lenôtre to photograph their creations. His culinary reports have been published in, among others, Feinschmecker and French Elle. The Dutch-born photographer currently practices his passion from his studio in Hamburg. He works for an international clientele specialising in advertisement and editorial photography.

Client references include: Barilla Italia, Bacardi International, Bitburger, Heineken, Coca-Cola International, Kraft Foods, Nestlé, Mövenpick, Unilever International, Oli Carli Italy, Dr. Oetker, Ferrero, Kellog's, Condé-Nast Publishing, Gruner & Jahr.
 
Awards: Chosen as one of 'Gemany's Best Photographers' in 2008 by NBVD Publishing. Selected as one of the '200 Best Ad Photographers Worldwide' in 2008 by Lürzers Publishing. ADC award for 'States of Foods'.

Josep Maria Roca specialises in advertising, food and people photography. His studio and digital retouching department are both situated in the centre of Barcelona.

His work has won numerous awards, both in photography and for advertising graphics, at some of the most important international festivals (Cannes, London, New York, Fiap, Lux, Laus and Best Pack).

Clients include Danone, Nescafé, Eat Out, Rana, Frigo, Cola Cao, Camy, Chupa Chups and Gallina Blanca, among many others.

Over the past year, Paul Webster has completed work for all his major clients including Waitrose, Ugo Pasta, Ken Hom, Délice de France, Rhubarb, Dobbies, BBs, and many more.

The work shown in this Spotlight includes Spar Groceries, Ugo, Buitoni, Ken Hom, Délice de France, Slimfast (Coley Porter Bell), and L'Abbaye de la Bussiere.

Paul welcomes new challenges and is looking forward to 2009, as he hopes to develop his video portfolio.

Steve Baxter continues to produce high quality imagery for a large variety of clients.

He mostly uses daylight to produce beautiful colouration and saturation.

Tim Bowden has been established for 20 years and works from his spacious studio in Shoreditch, London. He is a very versatile photographer, producing everything from clean and crisp food images with daylight-inspired lighting through to more moody, atmospheric shots.

Having switched to digital around 10 years ago, Tim offers state-of-the-art image capture through to FOGRA certified CMYK proofs.

Recent commissions include Felix, Bernard Matthews, Typhoo, Clearspring and Greene King.

Tim also photographs people with food and is currently producing a second folio with this in mind.