Celebrating food in its many avatars
The Pink Lady Food Photographer of Year 2017 awards have been announced. Here are the winners
Image by : Lily-Mae Franklin
1/24
Description: Japanese Flower Tea
Category: 11-14 Years
Winner: Lily-Mae Franklin (UK)
Image by : Felicia Frank
2/24
Description: This picture came about on a beautiful hike in the Alps. Feeding those hungry cows with grass with one hand and taking pictures with my other hand I was just hoping to get a nice picture.
Category: 15-17 Years
Winner: Felicia Frank (Germany)
Image by : Wesley Dombrecht
3/24
Description: The image belongs to my personal work. It was made in my studio; the light that I used was one Profoto B2 with a softbox
Category: Cream of the Crop
Winner: Wesley Dombrecht (Belgium)
Image by : Sally Ann Stone
4/24
Description: ‘Getting down on the job’ has taken on a whole new meaning when I set out to capture the amazing colours and structure of this year's Swiss chard crop in the vegetable garden.
Category: Food in the Field
Winner: Sally Ann Stone (UK)
Image by : Azalea Dalton
5/24
Description: Bird's eye view of Villefranche market stalls (Villefranche-de-Rouergue, in the French Riviera), taken from the top of a church tower overlooking the square.
Category: Partridges Food for Sale
Winner: Azalea Dalton (UK)
Image by : Robin Stewart
6/24
Description: Taken at the Crouch End Indo-American festival, in the summer of 2016
Category: Startisans Food in the Street
Winner: Robin Stewart (UK)
Image by : Hein Van Tonder
7/24
Description: Caramel poured over a baked chocolate pudding.
Category: Food Bloggers (supported by Aspire)
Winner: Hein Van Tonder (South Africa)
Image by : Francesca Brambilla & Serena Serrani
8/24
Description: At a 3 Michelin-stars kitchen
Category: The Philip Harben Award for Food in Action
Winner: Francesca Brambilla & Serena Serrani (Italy)
Image by : Shoeb Faruquee
9/24
Description: A cook prepares food for devotees to break their 24-hour fast with, after special prayers are offered to Hindu saint Baba Lokenath.
Category: Food for Celebration (sponsored by Champagne Taittinger) & Overall Winner: Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year
Winner: Shoeb Faruquee (Bangladesh)
Image by : Patrick Desgraupes
10/24
Description: This photograph was taken during the grape harvest in Chateâu Virant, a famous vineyard in Provence (southern France). This wine tank is being emptied.
Category: Errazuriz Wine Photographer of the Year & FujiFilm Award for Innovation
Winner: Patrick Desgraupes (France)
Image by : Darren Eastwood-Hickson
11/24
Description: A metal plate, with a mixture of leaf salad and tomatoes on a paint splattered background. A metal pouring jug and a metal fork.
Category: Marks & Spencer Food Portraiture
Winner: Darren Eastwood-Hickson (UK)
Image by : Kyriacos Arkatites
12/24
Description: At the little and idyllic Paphos harbour in Cyprus, there are a few restaurants along the walkway. While passing by with my little children, we could not resist the view of the variety of fresh sea ‘goods’ in the freezer. And the kids kept getting excited with their ‘discoveries’!
Category: Marks & Spencer Food Adventures
Winner: Kyriacos Arkatites (Cyprus)
Image by : Leonardo Salomao
13/24
Description: Many families work together in the rice fields in Nepal. During their break time, everybody share the food in a huge circle inside their work place.
Category: Food for the Family
Winner: Leonardo Salomao (Brazil)
Image by : Emma Brown
14/24
Description: Every two weeks, in the refugee camps near Tindouf in Algeria, women collect egg rations distributed by the Sahrawi Red Crescent. The majority of Sahrawis are refugees today in one of the harshest desert environments in the world, their homeland of Western Sahara is the last colony in Africa and the site of a protracted territorial dispute.
Category: World Food Programme Food for Life
Winner: Emma Brown (UK)
Image by : Jean Cazals
15/24
Description: Shot in a restaurant. The perfect mac & cheese, with the strings to go with it!
Category: Intercontinental London Park Lane Food at the Table
Winner: Jean Cazals (UK)
Image by : Peter Flanek & Peter Mészáros
16/24
Description: This stop motion video was made to promote a gastronomic section for a design market in Hungary .
Category: unearthed Food in Film supported by delicious
Winner: Peter Flanek & Peter Mészáros (Hungary)
Link to video: Here
Image by : Jonathan Gregson
17/24
Description: Photographed for the January 2017 cover of Waitrose Food
Category: Production Paradise Food Off the Press
Winner: Jonathan Gregson (UK)
Image by : Matthew Thomas
18/24
Description: After the shoot, the pheasants are hung and returned to the house.
Category: Bring Home the Harvest
Winner: Matthew Thomas (UK)
Image by : Laura Cook
19/24
Description: Seven-year-old Diana and her little sister, Nina, wait impatiently for their fish stew to cool down in Tole, Cameroon.
Category: Food Sn-apping (in aid of Action Against Hunger)
Winner: Laura Cook (UK)
Image by : Tom Parker
20/24
Description: Wealthy Italian hunters line up for a portrait in front of their bagged birds, at the end of a shoot that costs up to £50,000 to take part in.
Category: Politics of Food
Winner: Tom Parker (UK)
Image by : Richard Perry
21/24
Description: A Pink Lady apple should be in every doctor’s bag.
Category: Pink Lady An Apple A Day
Winner: Richard Perry (UK)
Image by : Emma Boyns
22/24
Description: An image depicting a fully-booked Silo, the UK's first waste-free restaurant. Diners chat over wine and food while the waiting staff present the dishes and top-up drinks.
Category: BBC Good Food Fresh Talent Award
Winner: Emma Boyns (UK)
Image by : Mick Rock
23/24
Description: Pouring boiling water into a Portuguese oak barrel to clean it after assembly in the cooperage of Ferreira, at Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal.
Category: Errazuriz Wine Photographer of the Year (People)
Winner: Mick Rock (UK)
Image by : Robert Holmes
24/24
Description: Pressing pinot noir during the 2016 harvest at Criston Vineyards in the Eola-Amity Hills region of the Willamette Valley, Oregon.
Category: Errazuriz Wine Photographer of the Year (Produce)
Winner: Robert Holmes (USA)
