Project: Food Stylist Test Shoot with Evie Harbury

I originally met Evie a couple of years ago when capturing a food photography commission with Sam of Ki Kefir, and creatively hitting it off about our love for all things food. Evie works as a talented chef, food stylist, recipe developer and home economist - spanning film and stills for advertising and publications.

As a food photographer, and Evie a food stylist, we really enjoyed our first experience working together so decided to meet up a couple of times a year (schedules permitting) to try out new ideas and test some creative food photography concepts that we don’t always get to explore when on the job.

With Spring on the horizon, we worked together to produce mood boards then created a concept for a textural shoot that explored desserts, repeating patterns, and a short series of imagery inspired by Picasso’s ceramics. For the pre-production, Evie focussed on producing and developing recipes, then ingredients sourcing and prep - whilst I took an art direction approach to source props, produce backgrounds, and finalised the treatment of the brief into a fully realised call sheet ahead of our food photoshoot.

Shooting from my home daylight studio and with two separate spaces for food preparation and props - we stuck to worked together to capture six separate food photography scenes on the day.

A massive always goes to Evie for being such an amazing food stylist, and for always bringing such a great creative eye to our work together. Check her out at @evangelineharbury.