How to photograph bread

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VB spent two days last week with an incredibly talented team from Ryland Peters & Small photographing bread.  Taking a few (ok, 12) bread recipes, we spent a time baking, cutting, presenting, eating, snacking, styling, and photographing for a special book on bread that will come out this time next year.

It was amazing what Peter Cassidy was able to do with bread.  My photos of bread look like, well, bread.  Brown, shapely, edible and bread like.  His photos, on the other hand, look like unmade beds – all of them earthy and redolent of the experience of the past and the promise of the future.  The most sensual photos of anything I have ever seen – and that is what bread is.  Sensual, evocative, emotional and, yes, sexy!  I cannot show you any of Pete’s photos and mine are a very distant booby prize, but they are a great reminder of a great day preparing for a great book.  Thanks all.

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Pete in action in his studio
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Julia looking longingly at the focaccia de recco
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Iona rolling out a pita bread
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The kringel - eaten in a flash at the RPS offices - wouldn't you?
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OK, we nearly set fire to the studio...
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Iona and Pete in deep discussion about a shot
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Toys for the boys (and girls) - but I will stick to the dough

2 thoughts on “How to photograph bread”

  1. iulian

    I’ve looked over Peter’s website, his pictures looks fantastic, made me…almost licking the monitor 🙂

    A ” how to make bread photos ” tutorial, will help a lot, many of us.

    iulian from Romania

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