Gotta love the internets. I stumbled onto the work of an amazing photographer earlier – Carl Warner. He appears to be a high end creative advertising photographer who specializes in food photography. But the works that piqued my curiosity were some food landscapes… ‘Foodscapes’… that he’s done. Very clever, very beautiful and (having done my photography degree majoring in commercial advertising photography) rather difficult and very time consuming works to create.
The images were created in the studio on an 8 x 4 foot table with the fronts of each of the Foodscapes being approximately 2 foot across. The foregrounds and the backgrounds were shot in layers to avoid spoilage of the subject matter and composited later from what I understand. All the components of each photograph are commonly found in the kitchen.
Cheese villas and pasta curtains.
Pasta wagons, mushroom wheels, pinenut stone wall and chili and pepper trees.
Turnip, banana and strawberry balloons, berry produce and fields and roads of grains.
Peas hanging from broccoli trees, bread mountains, cauliflower clouds and a road paved with cumin.
A sea made of salmon, rocks of potatoes, overhanging trees made of herbs and what looks like chocolate cake for rocks!
And this one especially groovy and no doubt horridly perishable – snow capped mountains and snow covered trees made of bacon and cold meats and a sled made of breadsticks and parma ham.
I think his work is amazing. The perspective of the images is fantastic and the lighting is just so. It’s fun to look at the images and figure out what sort of food has been used to create each section of the picture. I’d love to spend my days doing stuff like that (give or take the cold meats which is a bit icky). Carl Warner’s website is here, but be warned it’s one of those painful flash sites that take forever to load.
