food & drink photography + motion Jul 2015

Antonio Chagin has been working as a commercial photographer for the last 20 years shooting images for advertising agencies, architects. interior designers and magazines. His studio offers everything from location logistics to the best stylists in south Florida.

Antonio and his team blend the aesthetic aspects of traditional graphics with the high technicality of the digital world, resulting in a photography style that is full of details, textures and three dimensionality.

ACH Digital Photography guarantees expertise in digital capture and colour management.

Visit the website, email or contact Antonio on 786-597-6093 for more information.

Since 2006, Alistair Tutton has been an expert around the US in asking his clients the right questions, and listening to the answers, ​so he can produce outstanding images that really meet his their needs.

These wonderful clients enjoy Alistair's English wit (yes, he's an English transplant, so be prepared for photography with irony) and the spontaneity of his work so much that they come back for more, from global ad agencies to local firms as well as regional and national companies.

Andy Lewis is an accomplished food and beverage photographer whose work encompasses packaging, advertising and editorial briefs. He shoots from his studio in Sydney but also regularly on location around Australia and the rest of the world.

He has recently been creating images for Coles supermarkets, Lilydale Free Range Chickens, Weight Watchers, Diabetic Living and Taste.com.

Working closely with his clients and teams he methodically creates beautifully composed and unique results.

"My work spans many different genres - from shooting people to focusing on things we wear, the things we eat, to the places we live, to the things we love, and the things we crave. I love to capture it all.

People ask me to help them tell stories through a lens. I can do that - I love it. I spend my time shooting in and out my studio, and travelling when requested. I travel for fun when I can because I believe personal time is essential. I prefer to be outside. I try to surround myself with good hearts.

I love all kinds of music. I like pretending that I can play guitar. I often find myself staring in awe at my boys. I think my wife is cool as hell. Having grown up three blocks from Lambeau Field, I will always bleed green and gold. I will always have dogs. I love video games but never play. I will always want birds in my house but will never have one as it would make me sad. I want my boys to be older for certain things but I don't ever really want them to grow up. I will probably never be satisfied with my landscaping and garden. I will always want the feeling of a workout without any of the exercise.

I will always cringe at the act of explaining myself and then end up rambling on and on and on and on and on..."

There is a true art to capturing the pure essence of food in still imagery. In order to convey the texture, imply the aroma and impart the taste, a photographer must embody a keen eye for the slightest of detail and maintain a thorough knowledge of lighting, styling and colour.

Enter award-winning photographer Calvin Lockwood. His food images are amazing still life pieces, works of art and editorial genius.

For the last 25 years he has been thrilling clients with his unparalleled imagery in his downtown Atlanta studio and on the road across the country.

Chris Biggs has been working in the photographic industry in London since 1978 and from his studios in Great Portland Street since 1989.

Over the years, Chris has worked on a myriad of projects - from cars to food, room-sets and lifestyle, on location and in the studio.

His ever present desire for composition and lighting perfection, and for achieving the very best from the most varied concepts, is well known amongst clients and has earned him a position of high regard within the creative community.

Best known for his food, drink and liquids photography, but always enjoying the diversity of work his portfolio attracts, Chris is a true creative and assured craftsman.

"It's got to be fun! I'd like to think that I work with a smile most of the time, that I'm easy to work with and very reliable, keeping calm even when things occasionally get a bit stressful. I pay great attention to the brief and enjoy picking over the detail.

At the end of a shoot I like to think that clients have gone away with what they came for, which are fresh contemporary shots that answer the brief and more, but also a smile : )

Away from the studio I want to learn to fly!"

A location specialist but not averse to studio work, Cristian Barnett is a photographer with many years' experience across all areas of food photography.

This year he has worked for the third time with two Michelin star chef Tom Kerridge on his latest book ‘Tom’s Table‘, and has also worked with Tom to create imagery for his new restaurant The Coach.

Cristian has also continued to shoot advertising for Sainsbury's, commercial work for clients such as Thermomix and website photography for the exclusive South Kensington Club.

Dero Sanford’s joy in his career is to solve production issues and go beyond expectaions with regards to photography and video projects. He loves to create stress-free environments that ease the minds of art directors while creating imagery that fulfills his clients' needs.

Based in Little Rock, Arkansas Dero specialises in corporate portraits, fashion, lifestyle, people, food, architecture, and education photography - and anything that is photographically challenging.

Clients include UPS, Gilt Groupe, Entergy, The Wall Street Journal, Walmart, and many more.

David Bishop has been a commercial photographer for most of his career. 

David shoots for a wide range of media including advertising, packaging, cookbooks, restaurants, promotion, Web, annual reports, direct mail, catalogues and magazines, including many Fortune 500 companies.

His dimensional lighting pushes creative boundaries with appetite appeal and sensuality to allow greater tactile qualities to emerge. “Light offers unique control of your objectives,” he explains.

David understands how to successfully deliver the viewer’s eye to the most valuable elements within the composition. 

Duncan Loughrey has been shooting food for the best part of 30 years. With great technical ability, a keen eye for detail and a flair for beautiful lighting, Duncan undertakes every shoot in a friendly relaxed manner.

With many clients gained through recommendation, his experience and ability to interpret and execute the brief are highly valued.

His style is clean, simple and uncluttered.

Graham Precey is an established and successful London still life, food and drink photographer. He works primarily for advertising and design agencies from the UK, Scandinavia, Europe and the Middle East.

Experienced and popular with his clients, Graham is used to working on campaigns and projects for major brands. Graham is very passionate and enthusiastic about his photography and loves the variety his work brings. He works with some of the best stylists in London, and whether it is a food shoot or a drinks production, he has the talent and inspiration to bring the best out of the product.

His superb digital studio with its extensive kitchen and props set up is divided into daylight and electronic flash. In recent years, Graham has also started working in video as a videographer and a director.

Clients include Aldo Zilli, Andros, Anheuser Busch-Becks, Budweiser Budvar, Carlsburg, Compass Group, Culinare, Coffee Republic, Crussh, DeGustibus Bakers, Galbani, Gentings, Hennesy, Jean Christophe Novelli, Just Falafel, KFC Arabia, Krispy Kreme, Lactalis McLelland, Laphroaig Whisky, Linie Aquavit, Musgrave, Organix, Polo Campero, Marks & Spencer, McDonald's, Monty's Bakehouse, Mitchells and Butlers, Nestlé, Premier Foods, Rowse Honey, Sainsbury's, SSP, Square Pie, United Biscuits, Unilever, WeightWatchers and World Duty Free.

Ilva Beretta is a Swedish freelance photographer based in Tuscany. She specialises in food and still life photography with a predilection for shooting in daylight.

Ilva shoots both commercial and editorial photography and has worked with clients including Esselunga, Four Seasons Hotels, Domain Wines, QA International, Sale & Pepe, Alice Cucina, Mat&Vänner, Condé Nast, Havana Club, Philadelphia Italia and Rio Mare. She works on location and in her own studio.

Ilva is represented by DVmilano Photography (Italy & Europe) and MFAA (Asia).

Janyon Boshoff is a Sydney-based photographer specialising in advertising, people and food photography. His work is characterised by a bold, convincing and uncontrived connection with his subjects, and a distinct visual style attributed by considered directional lighting, either natural or crafted. His images are seldom dependent on extensive digital manipulation if the brief allows.

After nearly two decades, Janyon's enthusiasm for his craft, understanding of the brief and tireless work ethic has ensured long term relationships with his existing clients and creatives alike, although Janyon would credits this to his tight production team.

In-keeping with the current demand for cohesive still and motion content, Janyon is able to draw on past experience directing food tabletop TVCs, and is immersing himself into motion content production. His association with Maven Productions ensures a level of professionalism across still and motion productions.

Jason Lowe has tried most foods from far and wide, and visited a staggering number of countries in his role as food photographer and photojournalist.

He shares a regular column with Mark Hix in The Independent, the two having formed a close working partnership whilst working together on half a dozen books. Jason maintains close associations within the food world and works with some of the finest food producers and most inspirational chefs.

He has been awarded two Glenfiddich awards and is the photographer of choice for chefs Claudia Roden, Gennaro Contaldo, Fergus Henderson and, of course, Mark Hix. Commercial clients include Garnier, WeightWatchers, Sainsbury's, Liberte and Tesco, to name a few.

Jon Bader specialises in food, still life and people both for stills and motion.

His recent clients include KFC, McDonald’s, Zespri and Dominos as well as various editorial and personal projects.

Jon primarily works out of his own studio in Sydney and is represented in Sydney and Melbourne by Unsigned Management and Carnival Productions (motion), and in Shanghai by Justin Chan represents.

Kai Schwabe appreciates good food and drink. A passion for painting and drawing fits perfectly alongside his current photography work, and he has spent a number of years successfully shooting for leading food manufacturers and advertising agencies. His clients include Mondelez, Budweiser, Galbani, Agrarfrost, Jacobs, Kellogg's, Milka, BelVita, Nordsee, Subway, Yoplait and more, who all appreciate his professional approach to layout and briefs along with his technical expertise.

Kai's 500 m² daylight studio is located in the centre of Bremen. A master of different lighting techniques, he can quickly create a range of subtle moods according to the individual needs of each client. Working alongside a team of talented food stylists and assistants he develops high quality images that appeal to the appetite.

Kai is constantly involved in projects for international clients, with a recent intensive collaboration with the Dragon Rouge agency from Shanghai to realise a shoot for Yoplait China.

The last twelve months have been a busy and exciting time for Kris Kirkham, completing seven cookbooks, travelling to Ukraine, working with Heathrow Airport, Nando’s, Eat and Lidl, as well as working on magazines for Sainsbury’s and Ocado.

The next year looks to be full of many more interesting and exciting projects.

Kris is a London-based food photographer. He started his working life as a chef, training with some of the most prominent chefs in Canada. He continued to hone his skills for 15 years before making the transition to food photography in 2007. Kris's love and understanding of food is what he tries to show with his photography: real, authentic and appetising food captured as it is.

Visit his website for more information.

Based in Atlanta, Lauren Rubinstein is a leading interior and food photographer. Her images have an inviting feel, always telling a story that is elegantly designed and rich in colour. These qualities are the perfect mix for her wide range of work, enabling her to customise her approach to architectural and food photography - her professional specialties.

A strong sense of design and attention to detail are qualities that clients find invaluable, allowing Lauren to produce a wide range of projects that stand out from the ordinary and create beautiful imagery.

Award-winning food and portrait photographer Lisa Barber has over 15 years experience in the business and was recently a category winner in the 2015 Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year awards.

Previous work includes seven years photographing chef Skye Gyngell at Petersham Nurseries for the Independent on Sunday Review food section as well as providing the images for numerous cookbooks including Gordon Ramsey's 'Healthy', the two-Michelin star chef David Everitt-Mathias' cookbooks 'Divine Chocolate', 'Essence', 'Dessert & Beyond Essence' - for which she won three Gourmand Awards, and Brighton-based restaurant Terre a Terre's cookbook.

Lisa grew up on a farm in Australia where she developed a passion for all aspects of food, from production through to consumption, and has an allotment in South London close to her Brixton-based studio, where she grows her own produce.

To see more of Lisa's work visit her website.

Mark Loader has worked on all sorts of subject matters over his 20-year career and there’s nothing he prefers more than liquor and food.

Many years ago, a top art buyer told him that when she found great images of liquor, she could be confident that she had found a photographer who could shoot pretty much anything very well. Mark has followed and built his career on this piece of advice and has been fortunate enough to work on most of the major liquor brands in the process.

Liquor clients led him to beer, wine and food clients and he recently moved into a new Tribeca studio with natural light and a full, well-equipped kitchen.

Growing up in England, Mark admits that he had a lot to learn about food but loves to tell how it has been a hugely enjoyable process. He has an excellent team of similarly experienced prop, drink and food stylists for the successful completion of any project.

Myles New is a busy London-based food photographer. Equally at home in his London studio as he is on location, his work spans advertising, branding, packaging, books and editorial assignments.

Well versed in the art of creating mouth-watering images, he comes from a food background bringing with him an incredible understanding of food and how to photograph it. As one of his life-long passions, photography and his love of the art translates into an amazing understanding of lighting techniques and how to use them.

With an ever-growing client list, Myles recently shot billboard campaigns for Sainsbury's and ads for Hellmann's, and is in the middle of a long advertising campaign for McDonald's. He has also translated his skills to moving images, directing TV commercials for Lidl, Sainsbury's and knorr as well as some short films and animations. He has worked extensively with Lorraine Pascale shooting the books which accompany her TV series, and works regularly with editorial clients including Jamie, Olive, M&S, Waitrose Kitchen, Good Food and many more.

Call Myles or his agent Janice at Refresh to discuss new projects.

Nuno Correia has worked in photography since 1990, but over the last 14 years has become a recognised expert in advertising. With the production of his book in New York and across the US in 2009 by Martha Stewart publisher Clarkson Potter (Random House), his work has become known overseas.

In Portugal, Nuno is currently working for large agencies including TBWA, Publicis, Havas, McCann, Y&R, Lowe, Duda, BAR, Partners, JWT and others. His campaigns include McDonald's - international copyrights in Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece, Malta and Morocco - and a lot of packaging work in Portugal and Spain.

Since March 2013, Nuno has partened up with Pedro Ferreira da Costa to create Slowstudio, sharing the seat as DOP and Director. Slowstudio is a film production company based out of a 530 m² studio, fully equipped with high speed cameras, lenses and motion control robots to perform with excellency its speciality tabletop films.

Scott Lanza started his business in 1980 photographing products and still life; his first major food project was 'The Gatherings Cook Book', a collection of recipes submitted by Junior League members, produced in 1987.

Since then he has been photographing food, almost exclusively, for both advertising agencies and clients directly. Scott’s studio is located in the state of Wisconsin where 85 to 90 percent of the milk produced goes into cheese making. It’s hardly a coincidence that he has taken a special interest in photographing cheese!

Close to the Chicago market, Scott has access to some of the best food stylists in the business, many of which he works with quite frequently. All post-shooting services are preformed in-house, providing Scott’s clientele with high quality images ready for reproduction. His 4000 square foot studio, located in a quiet rural setting, has a well-equipped kitchen ready to facilitate all food related productions.

In addition, Scott has photographed the food featured on the wildly popular websites Grilled Cheese Academy and The Cheese & Burger Society.

To Søren Gammelmark, photography is a passion. He will go to the extreme to make the perfect picture, a picture that communicates exactly what the client wants.

Søren Gammelmark Photography is based in Aarhus, Denmark but only part of his work is made there. Søren will often pack up the entire studio and set up on location - sometimes because the location is important for the picture, otherwise because it is better for the client. What matters for Søren is that the picture is great, and the client is happy.

To Søren, detail is very important - he wants everything to be perfect. When shooting food and drinks he strives to make the viewer feel the atmosphere around the food, so they think they can smell and taste what can only be seen. 

Clients include Weber-Stephen Products, Morsø, Bang & Olufsen, Scanpan, Beoplay, Hoptimist, Dynaudio, Der Feinschmecker and Gastro.

Souders Studios is based in Denver, Colorado with facilities including a commercial kitchen, two studios, five client lounges and three prop storage areas. The Souders Studios team has won many prestigious awards.

The Souders Studios' team specialises in food and drink photography including splashes and flames. The company has helped transform many food and beverage brands into visual icons. Square Pixels is the company's in-studio award-winning retouching and digital compositing studio.

The team has won awards for its creativity from Australia to France.

"We can take your brand or ad campaign to a new level. When it comes to food and beverage, come and 'Satisfy your creative hunger.'"

Check out the company's motion reel on the website, email or call 303-384-3128 for more information.

Stephen Conroy's work has been featured in recent stills campaigns for Glenfiddich and McDonald's.

He also directed the positive and happy 'Daddy Cool' short film. Based on the childish excitement of Christmas Day morning, the twist being the child is excited to be making a Father's Day breakfast with light hearted results.

"If you need great food visuals for your upcoming work, get in touch."

Steve Baxter continues to work with major food producers and within the food industry producing packaging photography. He continues to work with major agencies including Pearlfisher, Honey Creative, Parker Williams, Epoch and Geometry Global.

Steve has also produced photography for several Waitrose food ranges from 'Fish to Bar-B-Q' to 'Love Life'. He also works on big brands, amongst them Maggi, Greencore and WeightWatchers.

Over the past six months, Stuart West has been busy shooting from his North London studio with clients such as M&S and Waitrose.

“The lovely thing about working in food photography is that you get to work across many different media platforms; this year we shot Mary Berry’s book 'Mary Berry Cooks', then moved on to shooting the current QMS digital and print campaign, then point of sale work for Waitrose and packaging for M&S, not to mention the odd bit of editorial thrown in for good measure!”

Stuart proves his versatility and consistency time and time again, with his work on British food a particular passion.

Stuart is represented by The Miss Jones Agency.

Terry Benson is an experienced food and lifestyle photographer working across editorial, advertising and packaging based projects.

Shooting on location and from his studio in the creative heart of Farringdon, Terry ensures a relaxed and productive environment to create the photographs that both fit a purpose and make viewers' tastebuds tingle.

His emphatic passion for the food world has seen clients such as Asda, Sainsbury's, Morrisons, Carte D’Or, Heinz and Design Bridge return to him again and again.