On Location in London and Sardinia - Photography Portraiture Series for Waitrose Magazine

For the April issue of Waitrose magazine I was commissioned to photograph portraits of seven Chefs who combine various culinary cultures within their food. The five page feature was shot across London UK and in Sardinia Italy, including this portrait of Zijun Meng from China and Ana Goncalves from Portugal who have created a hybrid menu for their restaurant Tata Eatery, through a shared passion for rice. Other chefs I had the pleasure to photograph included Ramael Scully, Marcus Samuelsson, Letitia Clark, Yohini Nandakumar and Terry Blake.

Social Media & PR Photography for Marks and Spencer ‘Break The Egg’ Easter Campaign for BMB Agency

I recently collaborated with BMB Agency to photograph and film a series of Easter themed images of Chocolate Easter Eggs and Hot Cross Buns to be used on Marks and Spencer’s Instagram channel as animated Instagram stories and photographs published on their regular newsfeed. The three Hot Cross Buns images seen below currently have a combine total 'likes' of 10k and growing. See the animated Chocolate Easter Eggs in action here!

Portrait Photography of Sebby Holmes for Waitrose Magazine

I photographed Seb Holmes at his Thai restaurant Farang in Highbury, London for Waitrose magazine. The word ‘farang’ means foreigner in Thai and is aptly named by the Buckinghamshire born chef who is now part of the new wave of non-Thai chefs in London. It also applies as Farang is based from the former premises of his step father’s recently closed long standing Italian restaurant San Danielle. Thai food, by an English Chef, in the setting of a restaurant which still maintained it’s Italian themed interiors - this was to be a year long residency before a permanent location was found for the restaurant and so the decor from the last restaurant was staying. For the portraits I needed to isolate Seb away from the majority of the interiors which overly suggested mediterranean food, bringing in a selection of fresh ingredients to suggest Thai cooking.

Food & Event Photography for Soho House Chef Competition

Soho House’s Head Chefs met to battle out their culinary skills at Soho Farmhouse in Oxfordshire with Raymond Blanc attending to judge these wonderful dishes. I have photographed a number of these events in the past year and it continues to amaze me how dedicated the chefs at Soho House are and how creative they continue to be with their food. Another thing that doesn’t change is the amount of time I’m given with the food in order to photograph them. The dishes were passed to me with roughly 60 seconds per dish to get my shot before I needed to pass them on to be judged.

Event Photography and Video Production for the Big Chill bar

For the relaunch of the Big Chill bar in Kings Cross I was asked to photograph the opening night and to produce a video of the highlights of the evening, a selection of these photos you can see on this page and the video you can see here.

Portrait Photography of Cookbook Writer Claudia Roden for Waitrose Magazine

Originally from Cairo, Claudia Roden is famed for introducing hummus to the UK palette with her 1968 publication A Book of Middle Eastern Food. I photographed Claudia at her home for the March issue of Waitrose magazine. We spoke of our shared connections with North London including my favourite Golders Green Chinese restaurant where I first learnt to use chopsticks.

Restaurant Food Photographer for Soho House at Kettners Townhouse in London's Soho

Established in 1867 by August Kettner, rumoured to have been chef to Napoleon III, Kettner’s was one of the first restaurants in London to serve French food. To coincide with the relaunch of the restaurant and hotel, I was commissioned by Soho House to photograph a sample from their menu which you can see on their website here:

www.kettnerstownhouse.com/menus

Branding Photography for Wahaca on behalf of Design Studio

The rebranding of Mexican restaurant Wahaca’s Shoreditch test kitchen is a visual feast. I was commissioned by branding agency Design Studio to show how their recent rebranding work of Wahaca is incorporated into the retail design experience of the restaurant such as menus, pavement sandwich boards, promo leaflets, voucher cards and even novelty chilli seed packets in the guise of Matchbooks for customers to take home.

What looks like a typeface created with masking tape adorns the front of the building, whilst inside the menus have been made with an element of oddity and goofiness I have not seen before. What looks like complimentary matches turns out to be takeaway chilli plant seeds. Oh and to add to this the Mexican food is amazing!