World’s Best Food Photographs Served Up A haunting image, Red Bean Paste Balls, by Chinese photographer Zhonghua Yang, has won the overall prize of Pink Lady® Food Photographer of the Year 2024, the world’s leading celebration of food photography and film. The image, which had first won the Champagne Taittinger Food for Celebration category, was taken in the rural area of Xiangshan, Zhejiang during busy preparations for a feast for Spring Festival, also known as Lunar New Year. This includes the tradition of making dim sum, such as red bean dumplings, steamed rice cakes and glutinous ri ..read more

  Exhibition of world’s best food photography Inspires new London festival celebrating food and photography An exhibition of the finalist images of this year’s Pink Lady® Food Photographer of the Year, the world’s leading celebration of food photography and film, is premiering at the Mall Galleries, London. The free-to-enter exhibition runs from 5th - 9th June and has been named one of the best photography exhibitions to see in 2024. From growing, farming, harvesting, to cooking, eating, celebrating and surviving, this smorgasbord of images tells the stories of lives across the world thro ..read more

  We are delighted to announce that the much-anticipated Pink Lady® Food Photographer of the Year 2024 Shortlist is here to delight, inform and inspire.   ‘Cave Fishing’ by Natnattcha Chaturapitamorn, Shortlisted, Tenderstem® Bring Home the Harvest From growing, farming and harvesting to cooking, eating, celebrating and surviving, the images offer a unique insight into the lives of people around the world through the universal language of food. Thousands of images poured in from over 65 countries across the globe for the competition’s 13th edition. The standard of entries displays b ..read more

  The humble egg has been a popular subject matter for photographs submitted to the competition over the years. We’ve seen it cooked, created, cracked and captured in all sorts of weird and wonderful ways. For our latest blog, we chose a selection of eggs-traordinary images from the archive and found out more from some of the photographers that captured them.   ‘Broken Egg’ by Michael Hedge, Winner, MPB Award for Innovation, 2019 I shot this image for the RSA journal a couple of years back, the styling was done by Kerry Hughes and art direction by Johan Shufiyan. We did the image fo ..read more

  In 2023, Carla Sutera Sardo won The Claire Aho Award for Women Photographers. This category, introduced in 2021, aims to encourage and celebrate women photographers and is in memory of Claire Aho, Finland’s greatest women photographer. Carla won the category with a powerful portrait. “There is so much strength and depth of expression in this beautiful older woman’s face,” says Caroline Kenyon, Founder of the Awards. “She sits, as immaculate as a model, in her kitchen, surrounded by beloved possessions. What stories can these four walls tell?” For our latest blog, in celebration of Inter ..read more

  As the entries come in from around the world, Team Pink Lady® Food Photographer of the Year is gearing up for close of entries and then the deep dive into shortlisting. It’s a task I absolutely love - looking through, engaging with, considering and debating every single image. I am so looking forward to the 2024 crop. But before we get there, I have treated myself to a nostalgic look at the 2023 shortlist. What an incredible smorgasbord of stunning images, across every category. It always takes my breath away. So I have picked out just a very few to share with you why they speak to me ..read more

We like to reflect on what Pink Lady® Food Photographer of the Year means to our entrants. Angela Nicholson, judge and Co-Founder & Director at Camera Jabber and Founder of SheClicks, spoke to Donna Crous, who explains how the competition has kickstarted her career, and shares with us her journey through the competition. Now a professional food photographer, Donna’s work can be seen in recipe books, magazines, and brand development across the globe. We are celebrating, not only our tenth year, but Donna’s achievement of becoming a Nikon Northern Europe Ambassador.   Donna, tell us a l ..read more

  For our latest blog, we chatted to photographer Judith Balari, a multiple-finalist of the competition who has been entering since 2016. Judith tells us about where her love for photography began, her favourite entry and her top tips for success in the competition.   Tell us about how your love for photography began For as long as I can remember I have always loved photography. When I was a little girl I used to cut out pictures from magazines and pasted them on one of my bedroom walls. I would stare at them for hours. Years later I started collecting National Geographic magazines a ..read more

As the festive season makes its way into view, even if world affairs mean some of us don’t feel quite as festive as in previous years, there is almost always something in our lives for which to be thankful and to celebrate. And if you can name us a celebration that doesn’t have food at the heart of it, we shall be very surprised! There are so many photogenic opportunities - festive food often has lovely traditions around it, starting with the making of it. Just think of Stir Up Sunday when people gather to make the Christmas pudding. Or Three Kings Day on Twelfth Night when a special bread is ..read more

One of the many joys of our Awards is the endless creativity we see in the images, year after year. Just when you think you can’t be surprised, a shot comes into view which delights, makes you laugh, astonishes or even disturbs in a completely novel way. It might be the subject matter, or the composition, or the styling, or the setting. But with entries coming from almost 100 countries over the years, perhaps it’s not unexpected that we are treated to so many different interpretations. One image that really grabbed public attention was Anatomy of a Feeling by Jonathan Thevenet. Highly Commende ..read more