Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year 2020: Instagrammers, Chotto Matte and tattooed pig's trotters among winning pictures

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Ailis Brennan29 April 2020

The winners of the annual Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year for 2020 have been announced, with London restaurants and a pair of tattooed pig’s trotters among the images to receive accolades.

The competition accepts entries from all around the world for a variety of categories, with 11 Brits taking top prizes this year. This included Sandy Wood’s winning image in the food at the table category, which sees a group of Instagram influencers working to light a dish at a dark restaurant table so they can take a photo of it.

Fellow winners from the UK include Nicole Herft who took the Food Stylist award for her work with Soho Peruvian-Japanese restaurant Chotto Matte among others, and Jonathan Minster won for his eerie photograph of a pair of pig’s trotters tattooed with the words “Love” and “Hate” on the knuckles, in a comment on the uneasy relationship many meat-eaters have with contemporary farming practices.

The country’s photographic future seems in good hands as Scarlett Blanch won in the Young – 10 and Under category for her photograph of traders selling apples at Stroud Farmers Market, while Alex Forbes came in first place in the Young – 11 to 14 category for his image of fruit swimming in mulled wine.

'Looking Too Good to Eat (Just Yet)': A photo of eager Instagrammers won the Intercontinental Food at the Table category
Sandy Wood/Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year 2020

Many images, of course, took a more serious look at the food world. Bangladeshi photographer K M Asad was named the overall winner of the competition for his photograph of a queue of Rohingya refugee children holding empty bowls as they queue for food, which was also the winning image in the Politics of Food category.

Other striking images include Xueping Du’s photograph of a woman stretching noodles by whipping them round her head like a lasso at a street food stall, Azim Khan Ronnie’s phone photo of an iced pile of hilsa fish in Bangladesh, and a night time food market in Yangon, Myanmar, shot by Zay Yar Lin.

For the full list of finalists and winners, visit pinkladyfoodphotographeroftheyear.com

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