Diner Media

Food
Photography

Photographs that make a dish feel like a place, a season and a decision, not a product on a plate.

Chef's hands over copper and steel pans lined along a warm-lit kitchen pass

Pl. 01Copper and steel pans at the pass, the last light of service on stainless steel.

Photography, Diner Media

What the engagement includes
01

Art direction

Palette, props, surfaces and light decided before a single plate leaves the pass, so the images agree with the room they came from.

02

Styling

We work with your kitchen rather than around it. Food is plated to be eaten, then photographed while it is still alive.

03

Shooting

Natural and shaped light, long lenses, patience. Stills carrying the weight of a film frame.

04

Delivery

A graded set built for menus, print, out of home and social, cropped and sized for each place it will live.

How it runs
  1. One. A call, then a written direction: what the images are for and what they should make someone feel.
  2. Two. A shoot day in your room or our studio, usually twelve to twenty dishes, never rushed.
  3. Three. Selection together, then grading. Final files inside two weeks.
Who it suits
  • Restaurants and bars opening or relaunching
  • Hotels and resorts with a dining story to tell
  • Food and beverage brands preparing a campaign
  • Chefs and producers building a personal archive
Overhead table of plated courses with hands reaching in, shot from above on white

Pl. 02A full table seen from above, courses photographed while they were still being eaten.

Photography, Diner Media

Tell us what you want people to feel when they see the plate.