As a child growing up in the Philippines, I got to eat a weird and wonderful variety of snacks that are surprisingly tricky to find in the UK. Cracking open a packet of Chippy (salty-peppery-cheesy crisps) is a tasty and nostalgic experience that takes me way back. This childhood snack photography series is inspired by…
Red is a colour that appears a lot in different food. It is also a colour that is associated with various emotions, symbols and themes. Specifically in food photography, the way colour is shown affects how someone reacts to the food subject. Does it make your mouth water or your stomach churn? What sort of…
Like all trends, the retro food photography aesthetic is all the rage. I decided to put my own spin on it and took inspiration from the food, culture and aesthetic of the civil rights movement in 1960s America. I hope you enjoy this retro food photography series as much as I did creating them. If…
One of the biggest challenges of being a food photographer is tackling food waste. In an effort to reduce my own food waste, I created this budget food photography series using only ingredients from the reduced section in my local shop. It was an interesting experiment that made me think more creatively about how I…
The brief Mimi’s Bakehouse started as a single, family bakery in 2010. It has now grown to become an Edinburgh institution famous for its baked goods and family-friendly savouries. I recently did some food photography of Mimi’s Bakehouse’s products for their new refreshed website and to use on their social channels. Cake photography, like any…
This year, the Pantone colour of the year is Very Peri. The shade provided the inspiration for my Pantone food photography idea. I created a series of food photographs inspired by this new Pantone colour. Purple is one of those colours that rarely appear in food and so it posed a challenge to create interesting…
Did you know that cheese is the third largest greenhouse gas emitting food?1 It surprised me too! Cheese ranks just below beef and lamb in the amount of greenhouse gases it produces within the food supply chain, ranking above chicken, pork and fish. As a vegetarian, I assumed that simply cutting out meat would drastically reduce…
Nearly one in five UK children under 15 lives in a home where the parents cannot afford to put food on the table. BMJ 2019;364:l1261 It came as a big surprise to know that the UK struggles with hunger poverty. This sort of statistic isn’t what I associate with a developed country like Britain. In 2020,…
The food photographer stereotype There’s a stereotype that when food photographers go out to eat, they always need to snap photos of their food before actually chowing down. You know what I mean, the ones that need to update their instagram stories to let everyone know about their unicorn waffle stack? Getting into food styling,…