Located in the busy West End neighbourhood of Piccadilly, and a stones thrown from Leicester Square, Layalina Piccadilly are a family-owed restaurant that has been running for over 20-years.
The team bring their passion for Lebanese street food to London, with specialities such as shawarma, fresh falafel, ultra creamy hummus, and traditional Lebanese mezze.
Read MoreHaving first picked up a camera seven years ago, and working in London as a food photographer for three of them, I’ve been fortunate enough to have worked with some great clients at some really amazing locations. If you’re interested into a bit more about my background as a person and photographer - I did an interview with Digital Marketing Specialist, Holly Pankhurst. Check out the a Q&A on me below:
Read MoreBerkeley Catering are one of London’s leading corporate and events caterers with over 20 years’ experience. As a returning client, and after our previous sessions together, they briefed me to photograph 40 canapé items during a one-day booking.
The goal was to refresh their menu food photography for new items on their canapé menu - for use on their website, online ordering platform and marketing, showing off the variety and quality of their canapés in a clean, consistent style.
Read MoreKorean Crunch Hackney is a brand under the Orbit Ltd brand, owned and operated by 3 co-founders. With their new menus completed, they reached out to me with the brief of capturing menu food photography of their Korean menu.
Their menu offers classic dishes like Bimibap, Danburi, Mandu (dumplings), and sides - including Korean BBQ wings, kimchi, and Panko Prawns, as well as dips.
Read MoreMatchamisu Covent Garden is one of several delivery-led brands operated from the Buns & Buns Collective, owned by REEF Technology.
As a repeat client, they reached out wanting me to covering three brands photographed in a single day, with each menu designed specifically for Deliveroo and other ordering platforms.
Read MoreLily’s Kitchen is known for making proper food for pets, using only real meat and high-quality, natural ingredients.
To help shoppers see that quality at a glance, the team asked me to create a library of overhead ingredient-bowl images for 36 dog recipes.
Read MoreBerkeley Catering are a London-based full-service caterer with over 20 years of experience delivering corporate and private events across the capital.
As a new client, they brought me in to create a full library of food photography for their updated website ordering platform - covering 250 dishes across five key categories.
Read MoreOwned and operated by my clients at Elia Greek Street Food, Stilvi Cafe is their sister restaurant brand with venues in Hawley Wharf Camden and Camden Boxpark.
Stilvi specialises in cute desserts, including pancakes, soft-serve, and waffles, as well as hot coffee and iced coffee. Stilvi operates in bustling areas within Camden.
Read MorePeckwater Brands are a multi-concept food group operating several delivery-led brands from a shared kitchen environment.
They brought me in to photograph three distinct brands in a single day - Flip the Bird, Wings & Tings, and Seoul Chikin’, each with its own menu, positioning and visual separation between brands.
Read MoreYou will often hear the terms ‘editing’ and ‘retouching’ being thrown about a lot in the food photography world. Often though, there’s not a lot clarification on what they mean. So what is the difference between editing and retouching?
Editing makes up for roughly 60% of the food photography post-production work that I carry out. A typical edit will involve cropping, re-cropping to a client’s specified ratio, frame straightening, and a basic grade; which includes, tweaking exposure, colour temperature, tint levels, colour balance levels, contrast, lens adjustments, as well as adjusting highlight and shadow details.
Read MoreBased in Belgravia, London - Kalmar is a lifestyle brand that creates indulgent self-care products. Set up by founder Karen Ruimy, a writer, dancer, and spiritual healer - Kalmar’s range of products are spread across their four Soul States - Joy, Calm, Peace, and Love; each with it’s own unique collection of self-care products.
With the brand ever-growing in popularity and the completion of the soon-to-be-opened Treatment Rooms, the brand was set to re-focus into its core USP of wellbeing, self-care, and spirituality.
Read MoreBased in Belgravia, London - Kalmar is a lifestyle brand that creates indulgent self-care products. Set up by founder Karen Ruimy, a writer, dancer, and spiritual healer - Kalmar’s range of products are spread across their four Soul States - Joy, Calm, Peace, and Love; each with it’s own unique collection of self-care products.
With the brand ever-growing in popularity and the completion of the soon-to-be-opened Treatment Rooms, the brand was set to re-focus into its core USP of wellbeing, self-care, and spirituality.
Read MoreI was contacted by London based health & beauty brand, The Organic Pharmacy. As a long established company, they specialise in producing products that fuse their herbal, homeopathic and cosmetic knowledge to create high-performance beauty products.
Read MoreAfter being in the fortunate position to work as a full-time freelance food photographer for the past four years - I’ve been wanting to return to my roots by shooting more closely with restaurants and to give back a bit; reminiscent of when I was a child, growing up above my parent’s Anglo-French restaurant in East Sussex. This is where my passion for food was first ignited, creating many warm memories of food.
Read MoreWe can all agree to what a strange and interesting times we’re all going through at the moment, from both a social and working angle. Now being five-months along the line into the UK’s lockdown, we are all seeing an ease of the measures and consumer confidence rising across the board; resulting in more people feeling comfortable in expanding their social bubble; going into work once a week for team-wide catch-ups, and going back out to eat, drink and for more experiential-led shopping.
Read MoreI first met Gemma a couple of years ago whilst working as the one-man-marketing-manager at my last agency. Bonding over our love of food and great wine, we kept in touch after I left the agency to pursue a career as a photographer.
Read MoreAfter teaming up with Sam and Damien at Ki Kefir, they kindly introduced me to their friend and graphic designer, Rich Tucker, AKA Ize London.
Read MoreI recently got back from a two-week trip to Vietnam. Having wanted to go there for years, I booked a bit of time out in my calendar, and took some time out with a mate - travelling around the north of the country.
Read MoreI am very late to the party, but as I’ve just picked myself up a Fuji X Pro 1 - I wanted to part with my thoughts on Fuji’s answer to the prosumer rangefinder.
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