McDonald's American Summer campaign

Even if we may not easily be able to get to France just now (!!!), the campaign I shot in the spring with the terrific TBWA\Paris team has now gone live. I only hope I manage to get over to see it!

Art Director - Maud Poilpre, Food styling - Anne-Claire Delphin

Web site update

I am going to be updating my web site over the next few days so please bear with me if it's a little erratic! If there's anything you especially want to see - DO EMAIL or RING me!
In the mean time here's a pink gooseberry pie you missed out on last week.

Come back soon and let me know what you think of the changes!

McDonald’s France are now showing the (healthy!) apples poster I shot for TBWA\Paris. It was a tricky one as we had to fit the segments into a layout which correlated exactly with the landscape of a laden Pink Lady apple tree shot on location by Andy Glass the previous week.

Lots of overlay traces were involved, not least to remember which segments were at the bottom and which on top.

But of course the real fun was getting them to stay put and get the lighting right while they all still looked fresh.


Happily another great team effort paid off, without too much resulting back ache!

Roasted red onions for One Eyeland

Really chuffed that my recent test shot (playing around with a lovely old Strobe strip light I've recently acquired) has been accepted by One Eyeland.

Chocomania

Krispy Kreme have been satisfying our sugar cravings with 2 shoots in the last 2 weeks. Although the last shoot was for their shakes, coffees and chillers, they brought along some of the Chocomania special edition douhgnuts which hadn't been filled when we shot them for the current campaign. Truly wicked....

Gnawing on Knorr's nosh

It's surprisingly seldom I get to photograph real home-style cooking which we then eat for lunch! But during our recent shoot for Knorr's Stock Pots the (large and very enthusiastic) team were all more than happy to dive in. Dagmar's roast chicken was particularly good.
The ideas are fun - nice to shoot meals part or fully eaten according to whether or not they used Knoor Stock Pots! Pity the recipes are not available on the UK's web site (which explains why they were able to use the "Taste the difference" slogan).

Client: Knoor, Agency: Edelman, Art Director: Jack Kent, Food stylist: Dagmar Vesely, Props: Jessica Georgiades

Working with the Artisan Baker

Earlier this year I had a real treat working on a book with Ori Hellerstein, Artisan Baker. Publisher Nick Eddison from Eddison Sadd Editions left me pretty much on my own with a regular exciting delivery of fresh bakery produce from Ori and a modest but adequate styling budget. With food like this who needs a mass of props! Just the right ones which Jo Harris sensitively sought- out for us.

We had fun with this shot. Ori remembers when he was a child buying bagels with twists of a pungent green spice called Za'atar (actually ground hyssop - a new one on me, exciting!) from a man with a donkey, so when we found this picture in the paper it simply had to be included (kitsch or not!!)
The icing on the cake (!) was two days shooting at the bakery near Stroud and watching the (very charming) Ori ply his craft - post to follow.
The book is due to be published in September. Watch this space!