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Burger Wisconsin Gretaest American Burger Advert
Jun
24

Burger Wisconsin

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Burgers (along with sandwiches) are some of the trickiest food items to style and photograph due to the complexities on the burger.Read More


Mexicali Feast Image
May
11

Mexicali Fresh

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I spent three days recently shooting for Mexicali Fresh at their Mt End branch. Read More


Feb
21

Fonterra food photography training webinar

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One of the parts I love about my job is training the next generation of photographers to capture great food images.Read More


Iced Fish Artwork web
Dec
08

Countdown & Brandhub Update

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Its been a busy few months here for us in spite of lockdown continuing to shoot for Countdown through Brandhub.Read More


Farmer Brown Egg Original | Food Photographer
Jul
05

Farmer Brown Eggs

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A big update from us here at Chef Photography

So a shoot we did a while ago in the studio for a packaging shot brand refresh for Farmer Browns eggs have finally been released and the new packs are in store now. 

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Al Forno Pizza from oven
Jun
21

June Update

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We have been busy here at Chef Photography recently with a lot of work from existing clients and some new National clients coming on board with us to look after their food photography.Read More


Perlas Potatoes with box
Mar
07

Perla’s Potatoes

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Again takes a while to post advertising work for major brands!! I tend to end up shooting images and video for brands months before they launch products or in this case campaigns. And you can’t post anything until it launches….Read More


Manukora Honey macro close up
Nov
03

Manuka Honey

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A bit late on this post as this was a job back in July. Manukora honey had been in touch to capture some macro shots of some of their ranges which will end up on their new packaging for the export market.

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Salmon sushi
Oct
11

New Website

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After many hours and late nights I’m pleased to announce that my new and updated website is now live – as you can see here.

 

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Spicy chickpea bowl salad
Sep
15

Goodlife superfoods

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So lockdown on, lock down off – Its been testing times over the last few months with cancelled booking, postponed bookings and rearranged bookings.

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A former London based Executive Chef in a life long ago, now a dedicated NZ Food & Drink Photographer. Working with a range of National & International clients such as Fonterra, Villa Maria, Countdown, NZ Herald, Goodman Fielder, Jack Links and various UK & European based clients.

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