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Here Are 2017's Best Food Photos

By Food & Wine Updated May 01, 2017
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Emma Brown, World Food Programme Food for Life
Credit: Emma Brown

Lots of people may think that with Instagram, anyone can be a food photographer, but the skill of the real professionals blows away whatever filter options exist every time. For the seventh year the Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year picked the best food photos out there capturing everything from bright, beautifully composed dishes to working kitchens around the world. Scroll through below to see some #foodporn worth more than a quick scroll-through.

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Carla Smend, 10 Years and Under

Carla Smend, 10 Years and Under
Credit: Carla Smend

5 a day on a board. Shot with an iPhone, eaten with the fingers. The minute after.

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Felicia Frank, 15-17 Years

Felicia Frank, 15-17 Years
Credit: Felicia Frank

This picture came about on a beautiful hike in the Alps. Feeding those hungry cows with grass with one hand and taking pictures with my other hand I was just hoping to get a nice picture.

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Richard Perry, Pink Lady An Apple A Day

Richard Perry, Pink Lady An Apple A Day
Credit: Richard Perry

A Pink Lady apple should be in every doctors bag.

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Matthew Thomas, Bring Home the Harvest

Matthew Thomas, Bring Home the Harvest
Credit: Matthew Thomas

After the shoot, the pheasants are hung and returned to the House.

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Wesley Dombrecht, Cream of the Crop

Wesley Dombrecht, Cream of the Crop
Credit: Wesley Dombrecht

The image belongs to my personal work, it was made in my studio, the light that i used was one profoto B2 with a softbox.

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Kyriacos Arkatites, Marks & Spencer Food Adventures

Kyriacos Arkatites, Marks & Spencer Food Adventures
Credit: Kyriacos Arkatites

At the little and idyllic Paphos harbour in Cyprus, there are a few restaurants along the walkway. While passing by with my little children, we could not resist the view of the variety of fresh sea 'goods' in the freezer. And the kids kept getting excited with their 'discoveries'!

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Jean Cazals, Intercontinental London Park Lane Food at the Table

Jean Cazals, Intercontinental London Park Lane Food at the Table
Credit: Jean Cazals

Shot in a restaurant. The perfect mac & cheese with the strings to go with it!

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Hein Van Tonder, Food Bloggers (supported by Aspire)

Hein Van Tonder, Food Bloggers (supported by Aspire)
Credit: Hein Van Tonder

Caramel poured over a baked chocolate pudding.

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Azalea Dalton, Partridges Food for Sale

Azalea Dalton, Partridges Food for Sale
Credit: Azalea Dalton

Bird's eye view of Villefranche market stalls, taken from the top of the church tower overlooking the square.

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Leonardo Salomao, Food for the Family

Leonardo Salomao, Food for the Family
Credit: Leonardo Salomao

Many families work together in the rice fields in Nepal. During they break time, everybody share the food in a huge circle inside their work place.

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Francesca Brambilla & Serena Serrani, The Philip Harben Award for Food in Action

Francesca Brambilla & Serena Serrani, The Philip Harben Award for Food in Action
Credit: Francesca Brambilla & Serena Serrani

At 3 stars Michelin kitchen.

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Sally Ann Stone, Food in the Field

Sally Ann Stone, Food in the Field
Credit: Sally Ann Stone

Getting down on the job, has taken on a whole new meaning when I set out to capture the amazing colours and structure of this year's swiss chard crop in the veg garden.

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Darren Eastwood-Hickson, Marks & Spencer Food Portraiture

Darren Eastwood-Hickson, Marks & Spencer Food Portraiture
Credit: Darren Eastwood-Hickson

A metal plate, with a mixture of leaf salad and tomatoes on a paint splattered background. A metal pouring jug and a metal fork.

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Laura Cook, Food Sn-apping (in aid of Action Against Hunger)

Laura Cook, Food Sn-apping (in aid of Action Against Hunger)
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Seven year old Diana and her little sister Nina wait impatiently for their fish stew to cool down in Tole, Cameroon.

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Patrick Desgraupes, Errazuriz Wine Photographer of the Year

Patrick Desgraupes, Errazuriz Wine Photographer of the Year
Credit: Patrick Desgraupes

This photograph was taken during the grape harvest in Chateâu Virant, a famous vineyard in Provence (South of France). This tank is being emptied.

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Shoeb Faruquee, Food for Celebration (sponsored by Champagne Taittinger)

Shoeb Faruquee, Food for Celebration (sponsored by Champagne Taittinger)
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Brahman cook is cooking religious food for devotees to break their 24 hours long fasting after special prayers. During this prayer Hindu Saint Baba Lokonaths followers burn ghee in a small clay pot.

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Tom Parker, Politics of Food

Tom Parker, Politics of Food
Credit: Tom Parker

Wealthy Italian hunters line up for a portrait in front of their bagged birds, at the end of a shoot that costs up to £50,000 to take part in.

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Jonathan Gregson, Production Paradise Food Off the Press

Jonathan Gregson, Production Paradise Food Off the Press
Credit: Jonathan Gregson

Photographed for the January 2017 cover of Waitrose Food.

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Robin Stewart, Startisans Food in the Street

Robin Stewart, Startisans Food in the Street
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Crouch End Indo-American festival, Summer 2016.

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Emma Brown, World Food Programme Food for Life

Emma Brown, World Food Programme Food for Life
Credit: Emma Brown

Every two weeks, in the refugee camps near Tindouf in Algeria, women collect egg rations distributed by the Sahrawi Red Crescent. The majority of Sahrawis are refugees today in one of the harshest desert environments in the world, their homeland of Western Sahara is the last colony in Africa and the site of a protracted territorial dispute.

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    1 of 20 Carla Smend, 10 Years and Under
    2 of 20 Felicia Frank, 15-17 Years
    3 of 20 Richard Perry, Pink Lady An Apple A Day
    4 of 20 Matthew Thomas, Bring Home the Harvest
    5 of 20 Wesley Dombrecht, Cream of the Crop
    6 of 20 Kyriacos Arkatites, Marks & Spencer Food Adventures
    7 of 20 Jean Cazals, Intercontinental London Park Lane Food at the Table
    8 of 20 Hein Van Tonder, Food Bloggers (supported by Aspire)
    9 of 20 Azalea Dalton, Partridges Food for Sale
    10 of 20 Leonardo Salomao, Food for the Family
    11 of 20 Francesca Brambilla & Serena Serrani, The Philip Harben Award for Food in Action
    12 of 20 Sally Ann Stone, Food in the Field
    13 of 20 Darren Eastwood-Hickson, Marks & Spencer Food Portraiture
    14 of 20 Laura Cook, Food Sn-apping (in aid of Action Against Hunger)
    15 of 20 Patrick Desgraupes, Errazuriz Wine Photographer of the Year
    16 of 20 Shoeb Faruquee, Food for Celebration (sponsored by Champagne Taittinger)
    17 of 20 Tom Parker, Politics of Food
    18 of 20 Jonathan Gregson, Production Paradise Food Off the Press
    19 of 20 Robin Stewart, Startisans Food in the Street
    20 of 20 Emma Brown, World Food Programme Food for Life

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