Here Are 2017’s Best Food Photos

By Food & Wine
Updated May 01, 2017
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

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

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

A Pink Lady apple should be in every doctors bag.

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Matthew Thomas, Bring Home the Harvest

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

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

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

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

Caramel poured over a baked chocolate pudding.

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Azalea Dalton, Partridges Food for Sale

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

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

At 3 stars Michelin kitchen.

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Sally Ann Stone, Food in the Field

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

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

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

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

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

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

Photographed for the January 2017 cover of Waitrose Food.

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Robin Stewart, Startisans Food in the Street

Robin Stewart

Crouch End Indo-American festival, Summer 2016.

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Emma Brown, World Food Programme Food for Life

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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