Food photography shows food and drink for cookbooks, magazines, advertising and social media. This guide covers its main approaches, its history from Talbot and Roger Fenton to food blogs, and the basic techniques.
Food photographers
Penny De Los Santos is a Mexican-American photographer and director based in New York City. She trained for the first ten years of her career with National Geographic, and since 2006 she has been a senior contributing photographer for Saveur.
Katie Quinn Davies is an Irish food and lifestyle photographer, food stylist and cookbook author based in Sydney. She worked as a graphic designer and art director for more than a decade, then taught herself food photography in 2009.
Deb Perelman (born 1976) is the cook, writer and photographer behind Smitten Kitchen, the food blog she started in New York in 2006. She takes all the photos for the site herself.
Hélène Dujardin is a French-born food photographer from Provence who lives in Charleston, South Carolina. A former pastry chef, she taught herself photography on her blog Tartelette.
David Loftus (born 1963) is a London-based food photographer. He has photographed more than 100 books, including all but one of Jamie Oliver’s international best-sellers, which have sold more than 30 million copies.