Portfolio
A selection of work across the three main subject areas, organised by what each thread of work tends to involve. The full portfolio is held privately and sent on request to commissioning editors and clients; this page is a public sketch of the territory.
Feast: food photography
Restaurant editorial — Half-day to full-day shoots in working restaurant kitchens. The frames editors care about: the chef's hands, the prep board, the moment a plate goes out, a hero shot of a signature dish. Recent assignments have included neighbourhood bistros, a fine-dining tasting menu, and a regional bakery.
Cookbook work — Multi-day shoots for cookbook publishers. The work includes recipe development imagery, hero shots for chapter openers, and step-photography for technique-heavy recipes. Lighting and styling are both part of the studio's responsibility.
Brand campaigns — Food brand campaigns: ingredient manufacturers, kitchen-equipment makers, small-batch artisan producers. The visual language varies with the brand; the constant is that the food has to look like food someone would actually want to eat.
Recipe-development still life — Quieter work: a single ingredient on a single surface, beautifully. Often commissioned by editorial publications for ingredient-focused pieces.
Explore: travel photography
Travel-magazine editorial — Assignments to specific places. Recent work has covered a market town in northern Italy, a long weekend in coastal Portugal, a small village in the French Pyrenees, and a five-day series across Andalusia. The brief usually combines landscape, food, people, and the small everyday details a destination is known for.
Hospitality and hotel work — Location photography for hotels, inns, and small hospitality groups. The work is closer to interior photography than to landscape but uses the food-and-lifestyle eye to keep the spaces feeling lived-in rather than catalogued.
Photo essays — Longer personal projects that turn into magazine pitches or print series. The "year of bread" essay covered nine bakeries in nine cities over twelve months; the "market days" essay is an ongoing project across European weekly markets.
Reflect: lifestyle and portraiture
Maker portraits — Editorial portraits of artisans in their workspaces: a potter at the wheel, a winemaker in the cellar, a tailor at the bench. Usually shot as part of a longer editorial feature about the person's work.
Business-owner portraits — Quiet, considered portraits for small-business owners who need website and press imagery. Less corporate, more storytelling — closer to the editorial-portrait tradition.
Family portraiture — A very small line of work, by referral only. Editorial-style family imagery in clients' own homes, not in studios. Booked once or twice a year.
Selected published work
Photography from the studio has been published in a handful of food and travel magazines, several cookbooks, and brand campaign collateral for small UK and European food brands. I don't keep a full bibliography on the website (small magazines tend to go offline after a few years and the links wouldn't last). For specific tear-sheets relevant to a project you're commissioning, just ask in the initial email.
Prints
A small selection of personal-project images are available as fine-art prints. The travel essays especially have generated print sales. The bread series, the market series, the long Andalusia essay. Editions are small (typically 25), prices vary by size and image. Email to enquire.
How to commission
Email [email protected] with the project, timeline, and rough budget. For editorial assignments, the magazine's standard rates are fine; for brand work, quotes are built around the specific shoot scope. Replies within a couple of working days.