Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year 2024 competition winners

Crimson Bean Paste Balls, by Chinese language photographer Zhonghua Yang, has gained the general prize within the Pink Girl® Meals Photographer of the Yr 2024.

The picture, which got here first within the Champagne Taittinger Meals for Celebration class, was taken within the rural space of Xiangshan, Zhejiang throughout preparations for the Spring Pageant, often known as Chinese language New Yr.

Celebratory traditions embrace making dim sum, corresponding to purple bean dumplings, steamed rice desserts and glutinous rice cake.

“This excellent, perfectly-balanced picture is stuffed with gentle, shadow, thriller and poignancy,” stated Caroline Kenyon, founding father of the Pink Girl competitors.

“The meals is exquisitely made – its round shapes contrasting with the angularity of the fretwork screens, by way of which the sunshine pours.

“In the meantime, the girl who has made the meals, weary, carries in one more tray. Her function is to labour and to serve, whereas the company get together and luxuriate in.”

Here’s a number of the class winners, with descriptions by the photographers who took them.

“Lucy and Tony, and their kids, made the lengthy journey from Kent to the Isle of Skye to get married.

“They did not wish to transport a conventional wedding ceremony cake all that means, so their cakemaker produced these fabulous little ‘desserts in containers’ for them.

“We discovered a spot by the historic Sligachan Bridge, they usually tucked in!”

“Buri is Japanese for the fish [belonging to the species] Seriola quinqueradiata – it’s identified in English as ‘Yellowtail’.

“For hundreds of years, fishermen filleted buri, salted them, dried them for about 10 days, and at last wrapped them in leaves and lengthy rice-straw ropes earlier than hanging them in entrance of their homes, uncovered to the ocean breeze.”

“Rhubarb is so fascinating to me. I am keen on its color and texture. It additionally means spring is close to.”

“Chestnuts symbolise Autumn harvest.

“In our household with robust Celtic roots, they’re thought-about guardians of males and animals.

“The vintage chestnut roaster is a household heirloom and a nod to our farming heritage.

“The crested dove symbolises concord and virility.”

“This photograph was shot as a part of a collection, The Hungry Traveller, a Gousto marketing campaign celebrating cuisines from around the globe.”

“In the beginning of the rice-farming season, a younger farmer carries a rack of rice sprouts throughout a paddy subject in Sakon Nakhon province, Thailand.”

“Because the solar gracefully descends on the horizon, casting a heat and magical golden glow with an ethereal radiance, a tribal woman engages within the historical apply of threshing rice grains within the courtyard of her dwelling with rhythmic actions by tossing the harvested rice into the air.”

“A celebration of cake with My Little Cake Tin’s signature vibrant and trendy edible floral ornament.”

“Boats fan out throughout a stretch of the lake, making a floating market promoting an array of recent fruit.

“It is a floating market of seasonal fruits corresponding to jackfruit, pineapple, mango, at Rangamati, Bangladesh.

“The tribal farmers promote their fruit early morning at minimal value on a wholesale foundation.”

“I caught this bee having breakfast on a big sunflower at Bignor Roman Villa in West Sussex, England.

“With out bees to pollinate, there can be far much less meals on this planet.”

This 12 months’s judging panel, assessing 1000’s of entries submitted from greater than 65 nations, was chaired by meals photographer David Loftus and included Fiona Shields, head of pictures at Guardian Information & Media and Rein Skullerud, senior photographer and photograph editor, United Nations World Meals Programme.

An exhibition of all of the finalists may be seen, between 5-9 June, on the Mall Galleries, London.

All pictures topic to copyright. Courtesy of Pink Girl® Meals Photographer of the Yr 2024.