food & drink photography & motion Nov 2019

“Avocado Studio was born from an idea of three classmates, after having completed their degree in Visual Communication at IED Torino in 2015. Together, we had the need and the will to showcase our world through the creation of photographic images, composed primarily in the studio.

We have worked for clients on national and international scale, but also, because of our strong legacy with our hometown, we love collaborating with local start-ups and brands. Over the years we have managed to create a unique style and identity,that we love to apply to our projects in food, still life and automotive photography.

Everything starts from the urge to communicate something that we feel inside. When we are on set, we get completely transported by all the elements that compose the process, from the first flash that we set up to the final image that we shoot. The ability to amaze, enchant and transform what was just a sketch into a final image is what gives us the biggest satisfaction.

Recent clients include Martini & Rossi, Fabbri 1905, FCA, Lavazza, Carrefour, Guido Gobino, Makr Shakr, Amaro Ramazzotti, F.C. Juventus, Scribit, Perini Navi and Ristorante Magorabin."

"The brief is in! Your client wants you to create something that will tell a story and capture the appetite appeal of the product. Photographer and director Brent Herrig can help."

Based in New York and Chicago, Brent supports in-house and agency clients to achieve stress-free productions that hit the brief.

Recently, Brent consulted, designed, and photographed new cocktails for Scottish-based Botanist Gin. Chef Danny Mena's latest book 'Made In Mexico' featuring Brent's work was published in early October by Rizzoli Publications.

Some of Brent's recent clients including Nespresso, Ketel One and Starr Restaurants rely on him to capture their vision of food, drinks and products in the most collaborative, efficient way possible.

What can Brent help you with? Contact him directly to talk about your next project.

London-based photographer Colin Campbell specialises in food, drink and still life photography.

It’s been an exciting year in the studio so far, shooting for many regular clients as well as some great new ones including Waitrose, Pret, Baxters Soup and Haagen Dazs.

Colin has a fantastic team of food stylists, assistants and retouchers and works out of his own studio situated on the canal in Haggerston.

Cucina delle Foto’s team, made up of award-winning photographers, food stylists, mockup artist and photo retouchers, is specialised in food, drink and still life photography.

Cosimo Barletta and Mayda Mason achieved both the first and the third position in this year's Production Paradise 'Previously Published' category at the prestigious Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year Awards as well as the top-ranking Italians position in the 'World's Top 10 Fine Art Photographers'.

The studio has a very wide selection of props and handmade backdrops, and is equipped to create any type of product photography. The team love working with new and exciting challenges and concepts, experimenting with ideas, colours and light.

Dominic Episcopo emerged onto the photography scene and began cultivating his craft. He soon gained international recognition as a pioneer of the food and lifestyle movement, unabashedly willing to push boundaries and “play with his food” as any good rock n’ roller would. His iconic book 'Meat America' is a testament to this unique style and voice.

His most recent work can be found in a wide range of campaign advertising for global brands, cookbooks and culinary editorial publications, web commerce, fashion, and the private collections of notable contemporary collectors.

Dominic currently resides in Philadelphia where he operates a fully equipped photography and film studio in his converted, historic 15,000 square foot property. When he is not behind the camera you will find him in the kitchen, on a yoga mat or out shopping for 45’s for his beloved jukebox collection.

Visit the website to read more about Episcopo Studios.

Gareth Morgans' food photography expertise and years of experience have allowed him to work with many leading agencies, food companies, magazine houses, book publishers and design groups. Gareth is recognised for his colourful, vibrant and detailed images with a subtle graphic twist.

In 2019 brands such as Haagen Dazs, Waitrose, M&S, Tesco, Co Op, Slimming World and BBC Food have filled Gareth’s busy schedule.

This year has so far been successful for Gareth with a 3rd place in the Pink Lady Food Awards. He also received honourable mention in the 2019 US International Photography Awards with his personal series on 'Plastic Food Packaging'. Gareth was also shortlisted in the 2019 Creative Pool Annual for the same series.

Gareth Morgans is represented by RARE by Trayler, Daniele Forsythe (USA) and Qench (India). Follow Gareth on Instagram.

Hollie Bertram is a food and product photographer based in Norwalk, CT. With over 10 years of experience, Hollie has consistently created images for small and large businesses alike. Making sure she produces beautiful images for any budget, she has worked with clients from e-commerce and magazines to catalogue, advertising and local small businesses.

Hollie is able to wear all and any hat to help those clients with smaller budgets, by playing not only photographer but set builder, stylist, retoucher - you name it, she does it! That all stems from her catalogue days, when she first started out, where she was expected to do just that.

Her outgoing personality and adaptability makes her a pleasure to work with.

Jeff Couch specialises in photography and post-production with the main focus on food and advertising for local and worldwide clients.

With five years of experience, Jeff’s studio works with global and local brands, advertising agencies, Chefs and cookbook authors.

During the last four years, Jeff has shot for Michelin Star chefs, global fast food companies as well as independent restaurants for advertising images.

For an exhibition, Munich-based photographer Kai Stiepel has photographed a sequence that deals with the transformation of our eating habits. The pictures of the takeaway lids are an exploration of the way we eat.

Kai works from his own studio situated directly in front of Munich's wholesale food market, meaning it coudn't be easier for food stylists to get the best, freshest goods. He also feels very comfortable on location shoots, as these motifs for Develey show.

Clients include Bosch, Campari, Develey, Dr. Oetker, Dallmayr, Hipp, McDonald's, Müller Milch, Mövenpick and Ferrero.

Visit his website, follow him on Instagram and Behance.

Kulbir Thandi is an award winning photographer with a wealth of experience shooting stills, moving image, cinemagraphs and animations.

Kulbir works worldwide with many prestigious clients and brands in advertising and design and can call upon an experienced team of specialists for any shoot requirement.

From a small budget conscious shoot to a full blown production, Kulbir can offer full pre- and post-production facilities on-site from his own large central London studio.

See more of Kulbir’s work at his website and follow him on Instagram.

For inquiries and requests, call the studio: Tel: +44 (0)20 7403 0363.

Tuscan-born Luca Rosati lives in the countryside of San Gimignano and specialises in food, advertising and still life photography for editorial and commercial projects.

Luca's clients include renowned restaurants as well as traditional establishments. In addition to photography, he has worked as a chef in different restaurants and hotels both in Italy and the United States.

He works with a variety of creative marketing and design agencies, online food magazines and books. Inspired by colours and shapes, Luca loves creative photography and is available worldwide.

Meike Bergmann shoots for book publishers, magazines, industrial and trade clients, as well as PR and advertising agencies in Germany, Europe, and the USA.

She recently worked with Aldi, Krups, Dorling Kindersley, Gräfe & Unzer and Random House, to name a few.

Meike loves food and is passionate about bringing it to life in front of the camera. She has filled her Berlin studio with thousands of beautiful and unique things to help her place food centre stage.

Minna Vauhkonen is a Finnish food photographer based in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Minna loves to highlight food and ingredients with beautiful natural light that focuses on minimal compositions. She believes that the aesthetics of real food really speak for themselves.

Food and photography have had important roles in her life for many years. Minna has written and photographed two cookbooks. She is currently working with magazines and restaurants on both recipe development and photography.

As another crazy year comes to a close, Myles has been looking back at some of the amazing shoots and clients he has been working with - shooting for Nesspresso, McDonald's, Tesco, Waitrose, Marks & Spencer, to name a few, he has been very busy.

The shoots this year have been complicated and diverse, using multiple sets to create Tesco's Christmas campaign to McDonald's ATL, in and out of home imagery, making sure the visual experience floats smoothly between these worlds and multiple agencies.

Myles has got himself a reputation for making shoots work so that they can be layered and crafted to suit multiple needs. Along with his own testing and playful approach to his work, he thrives in lighting and complex shoots.

Always looking for new lighting and equipment, he looks for ways to make shoots work in the challenging constraints of modern photography needs.

Owner of Paul Saraceno Photography, Inc. and founding partner at California Street Studios, LLC, Paul Saraceno has always surrounded himself with the most talented and mindful crew, the best equipment and a versatile, functional and comfortable 5000 sq.ft. studio.

"We have a fully equipped kitchen surrounded by three shooting areas. With a full time retoucher on staff and access to top creative directors, producers, food and prop stylist, we are always ready for the next challenge. Stills or video.

Every day our goal is to make the ordinary extraordinary for every client. Fage Yogurt, Legal Seafood, Hood, Trask, Puma, Bertucci’s, LL Bean Signature, Cumberland Farms, Keurig and New Balance are a few in a long list of clients."

To see all the latest work, check out the website.

Peter Cassidy is a multi-award winning food and lifestyle photographer based in his central London studio. He shoots advertising, packaging and editorial commissions both in the studio and on location.

This year has seen Peter travelling the islands and highlands of the British Isles to shoot the book accompanying James Martin’s new TV series. Stopping off in Cumbria to shoot Observer Food award-winning baker Julie Jones’ new book (published by Kyle Books), before heading to Chile for Food & Travel magazine.

Clients include Marks & Spencer, Sainsbury's, Waitrose, Asda, Dairy Crest, Baxter's, Tilda Bloomsbury, Quadrille Publishing, Kyle Books and RPS. He has shot for Harrod's Magazine, Sunday Times, The Guardian, The Telegraph, Red, Food&Travel, Good Food, Olive, Delicious and Jamie Magazine.

See his previous Production Paradise publications for more images.

Reinhold Schroers' brand new food blog gourmetkultur.de combines the photographer and film-maker's two great passions - photography and cooking.

In the project 'Smoked Salmon', you can learn all about his passion for smoking fresh salmon - from buying and evaluating freshness, the art of filleting, pickling with dill, juniper berries and gin, to the various techniques involved in hot and cold smoking, using various wood chips and smoking flour varieties.

With 30 years of professional experience as a professional still life photographer, Reinhold is passionately dedicated to gourmet culture. On his travels he has visited many starred restaurants, made culinary experiences of all kinds, and is an avid cook at his classic Molteni gastronomic hotplate stove.

"With headquarters in Barcelona and links in Copenhagen and Stockholm, we are specialised in shooting for both food and drink clients, with great experience in photography for packaging and communication.

We have our own creative direction, home economist and post-production.

See more of our work online."

Scott Grummett is a photographer and director who specialises in food & drink.

This year his work with Food Hall has taken him to create more and more TV commercials in addition to his stills. Italian steak giants Roadhouse recently commissioned him and the team to create three 30-second commercials and even asked him to workshop the creative with them. The ASMR style films have been a great success and were a fantastic combination of fire, robots (motion control) and steak and chips - naturally a joy to create.

You can find Scott in the studio directing the tiniest pedantic move of lettuce with tweezers or out in the field with farmers, if it's food and drink, he's there.

Stills representation: Terri Manduca. Directing representation: Food Hall.

Food is more then something you eat. Working with Søren Gammelmark, you will find that to him, food is a passion.

"Food is taste, food is texture, food is scent, food is colours and contrasts, food is vital! That is why I love making pictures of food, to make a picture of a dish that speaks to all senses - that really makes me happy!”

Søren has more than 15 years' experience with food photography. He will be your steady hand on set as well as on location, always striving to get the best results in the highest quality.

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

Terry specialises in still life and food photography. He is based in a large well-equipped studio in central London just one minute walk from Farringdon underground station.

He works for a range of clients in both the editorial and advertising industry.

Terry’s passion for food is second only to photography which has seen him deliver on point images for clients such as Design Bridge, Thorntons, Tesco, Knorr, and Carte D’Or in recent months.

Terry delivers images with impact, passion and technical expertise.