Annemarie

Bolduc

These are local chestnuts roasted in the oven, photographed as part of a series of homemade research for both my blog and publication content. The photo had to be done quickly as chestnuts can only be peeled when still hot. I guess this is a good example of one of the challenges in sustainable food photography!

A red lentil curry soup with its ingredients, including an essential for the topping: coriander leaves. My backyard garden is where I source fresh herbs
for the kitchen and for my food photography.

What I love about culinary photography is discovering and observing the process of foods, and telling a visual story. This salami was about to be removed from the moulded skin and was homemade by an Australian family who gathers each year to craft it.

This is a self-assignment photo of my chickens’ eggs, from the backyard. No matter what colour the shell or size of the eggs, the yolks are all yellow and delicious!

A basket of fresh apples straight from the orchard, in "clair-osbcure". The bushfire that devastated this apple-growing region revealed the true colours of many things through the darkness. This one is for Batlow.

This cool climate chardonnay is a wine like no other. Inspired by both the flavours and the label's rich colour palette, this composition was from one of my first dark-mood styled shoots. The lovely vigneron family who assigned me this project were celebrating a first successful vintage after two seasons in a row of cancelled harvests caused by natural disasters. I wanted to express the sunshine that softly comes after darkness, and brings that same smile as when you sip this sublime wine at night.

From the label design, styling and photography, this commissioned work was made at my home studio with natural light, perishable props from the garden and a sugar pine log slice from a burnt forest. This local client was celebrating the first vintage since the Black Summer 2019-2020 bushfires, which devastated a fair part of their vineyard. I wanted to express the resilience that emerged from the darkness in this contrast.

Since culinary photography became a passion, and after many years of graphic design work, illustration and painting, I felt like going back to the basics of the Fine Arts and appreciating, more than ever, the art of still life. This image is part of a "clair-obscur" baroque-style series featuring produce cultivated in the surroundings of our region, or straight from the garden. These are organically grown globe artichokes simply styled in a basket, with a cloth. This was just an extra shot after finalising a much more complex shoot. Sometimes simplicity just wins out.

In Tumbarumba, in the foothills of the Australian Alps, cool climate wines, fruits and nuts are a speciality. Magic happened one afternoon when some fresh shiraz grapes, apples, quinces and shelled hazelnuts came to my studio. Photographed with natural light, just before dark, with time for a glass of wine. Santé!