Photo: Soh Yew Kiat, Malaysia
Black and white photography can take a viewer’s breath away. By stripping away colour, we become so much more aware of elements of that images such as texture, shape, light, and subtle graduations of tone in a photograph. In doing so, it has the power to tell a story. There is beauty in black and white food photography makes us see food in a different light, whilst adding a uniqueness and timelessness to an image.
Images of street food can show so many aspects of cultural life, from buying, and selling, to browsing and eating. Photographing street food can show the dynamism of entrepreneurs selling street food, of traders selling hand-made burgers in a London market, to waffles in Brussels to samosa in Bombay station or even stir fry in Bangkok. In photographing street food, we can learn so much about the culture and politics of food across the globe.
Food photography has a history that begins with artistic portrait photography which has developed over time to create some iconic food photography imagery.
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