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The World’s Best Food Photography

Back in April 2021, the winners were announced of the 2021 Pink Lady® Food Photographer of the Year.  Here we share a selection of category winners.


World’s best food photo served up

World’s Best Food Photo Served Up June 2020   Over the last decade Pink Lady® Food Photographer of the Year 2020 has celebrated food photography as a distinct genre and provided an effective platform for amateur and professional photographers alike to reach a significant international audience. As this highly successful awards programme gets ready for […]


Pink Lady® Food Photographer of the Year Shortlist (Photos)

Pink Lady® Food Photographer of the Year 2020 Shortlist Revealed (Photographs) 1st April 2020 The Oxford Cultural Collective is proud to work in partnership with Pink Lady® Food Photographer of the Year   “Seeing these beautiful and striking images is a reminder of the immense power of photographs to elicit strong emotional responses. “ Jean […]


Pink Lady® Food Photographer of the Year Shortlist (Films)

Pink Lady® Food Photographer of the Year 2020 Shortlist Revealed (Food in Film Shorts) 1st April 2020 The Oxford Cultural Collective is proud to work in partnership with Pink Lady® Food Photographer of the Year   “These Food Film Shorts lift the lid on wonderful food secrets. They are celebrations of apparently small things, which […]


Nik Sharma: Big Flavours, Beautiful Photos

  Nik Sharma: Big Flavours, Beautiful Photos January 2020 Part of the Oxford Cultural Collective’s ‘Perspectives on Food in Photography’ initiative.   Don Sloan catches up with Nik Sharma, photographer, columnist, cookbook author and rising star of the US food scene. Visit Nik’s photography website and his blog, A Brown Table.   Season, Nik’s Sharma’s […]


Matthew Fort: Snapping at Snappers

  Matthew Fort: Snapping at Snappers Part of the Oxford Cultural Collective’s ‘Perspectives on Food in Photography’ initiative.   Food writer and broadcaster Matthew Fort has had enough of pristine images of food presented on social media.  Why, he asks, has the image become more important than the reality? In response, he has started posting […]


Wee Rascal’s Friday Feasts

Wee Rascal’s Friday Feasts The instagram images of Del Sneddon (aka @WeeRascal) 14th September 2019 Part of the Oxford Cultural Collective’s ‘Perspectives on Food in Photography’ initiative.   Del Senddon (aka @WeeRascal) has a growing band of followers on instagram who admire his distinctive and enticing photographs of home-cooked food. His entry to the 2019 […]


Appreciative inquiry: the foundation for photo coaching

  Appreciative Inquiry: the foundation for photo-coaching harnessing strengths in individuals, organisations and communities through photography   29th August 2019 Part of the Oxford Cultural Collective’s ‘Perspectives on Food in Photography’ initiative. Jean Roberts, Patron of the Oxford Cultural Collective, discusses her work on developing a new Psychology of Photography, focused on the power of […]


‘The Cookbook’ – Lucia Fainzilber on food as contemporary art

‘The Cookbook’ – Lucia Fainzilber on Food as Contemporary Art   24th July 2019 Part of the Oxford Cultural Collective ‘Perspectives on Food in Photography’ initiative.    Courtesy of the Artist and Praxis Gallery. Argentinian photographer Lucia Fainzilber is currently staging a solo exhibition – ‘The Cookbook’ – at the Praxis Gallery in New York […]


Food photography: a window to Diana Henry’s imagined world

  Food photography: a window to Diana Henry’s imagined world   24th June 2019 Part of the Oxford Cultural Collective ‘Perspectives on Food in Photography’ initiative.    Donald Sloan talks with food writer Diana Henry about her use of food photography in her acclaimed cookbooks. (with thanks to Miranda Harvey)   ‘There is poetry in […]


waitrose & partners food – photos on brand

  Waitrose & Partners Food – photos on brand 29th May 2019 Part of the Oxford Cultural Collective ‘Perspectives on Food in Photography’ initiative.    Jean Roberts, Patron of the Oxford Cultural Collective, recently met with Alice Patient, Picture Editor for Waitrose & Partners Food magazine, to explore how the company uses photography to strengthen […]


Fred Plotkin on Food Portraiture

Fred Plotkin on Food in Portraiture   9th May 2019 Part of the Oxford Cultural Collective ‘Perspectives on Food in Photography’ initiative.    The finalists in the Marks and Spencer Food Portraiture category of the Pink Lady® Food Photographer of the Year 2019 delivered beautiful, enticing images of food that is ready to eat. Here, […]


2019 winners revealed – Pink Lady® Food Photographer of the Year Award

Jianhui Liao crowned winner of 2019 Pink Lady® Food Photographer of the Year Award 7th May 2019 Part of the Oxford Cultural Collective ‘Perspectives on Food in Photography’ initiative.    Chinese photographer Jianhui Liao has been named winner of the 2019 Pink Lady® Food Photographer of the Year Award, the world’s most prestigious competition focused […]


Jeremiah Tower – recollections from a personal photographic archive.

    Jearmiah Tower: Recollections from a personal photographic archive 15th March 2019 Part of the Oxford Cultural Collective ‘Perspectives on Food in Photography’ initiative.    Looking back through personal photos brings memories of friendships and significant moments in time. Here, Jeremiah Tower delves into his photo archive and reflects with Don Sloan on his […]


Caroline Kenyon on motives for founding the Pink Lady® Food Photographer of the Year Award

Caroline Kenyon reflects on her motives for founding the Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year Award and on her ambitions for a partnership with the Oxford Cultural Collective.


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