Mido Barsoum

Mido

Barsoum

Cairo

🇪🇬 Egypt

Also serving:

Budapest (Hungary)

Minimum price/hours

50$ per hour | 4 hours minimum

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7 awards left until the Senior Member

1st place in Egypt

2nd place in Hungary

With us

2 weeks

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Mido Eats

Born and raised in Cairo, Egypt. I'm a German school graduate and went on to study Character Animation in Swansea, Wales in 2001.
After I came back to Egypt in 2004, I started off learning about cooking and culinary arts. My Japanese restaurant in Egypt was operating from 2011 until 2013.

During the Covid-19 lockdown, I bought my first DSLR camera and immediately found a new perspective for my love of food.
I am currently a fully devoted food photographer between Cairo and Budapest and I am looking to expand my services into other parts of the EU.

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My best friend - R.I.P. - was a Dungeons & Dragons fan and a DM. One day he introduced me to the D&D Cookbook; a place where food and fantasy come together and nothing ever spoke to me more vividly than these two topics. Fantasy was always a part of my life and everything I do. It was a main source of inspiration.<br /> This Bouillabaisse was inspired from the cookbook and one of the most interesting parts of creating this was that I had to go to my grandmother's house in order to find some authentically old looking props, to match the scene I was building. The sourdough bread was provided by Diver Baker.

My best friend - R.I.P. - was a Dungeons & Dragons fan and a DM. One day he introduced me to the D&D Cookbook; a place where food and fantasy come together and nothing ever spoke to me more vividly than these two topics. Fantasy was always a part of my life and everything I do. It was a main source of inspiration.
This Bouillabaisse was inspired from the cookbook and one of the most interesting parts of creating this was that I had to go to my grandmother's house in order to find some authentically old looking props, to match the scene I was building. The sourdough bread was provided by Diver Baker.

116th Collection
This was actually a homage to Nikki Astwood and my entry into an Instagram challenge hosted by her and Food Art Project.<br /> I wanted to try an slightly break the common way of laying out these kinds of setups. Instead of a square, heart or circle with a defined edge, I thought of creating a more dynamic shape that would lead us to the hero dish.<br /> This photo also won first place. Thank you Nikki and Mridul.

This was actually a homage to Nikki Astwood and my entry into an Instagram challenge hosted by her and Food Art Project.
I wanted to try an slightly break the common way of laying out these kinds of setups. Instead of a square, heart or circle with a defined edge, I thought of creating a more dynamic shape that would lead us to the hero dish.
This photo also won first place. Thank you Nikki and Mridul.

116th Collection
I had this vision of a monochromatic blue set and the most prominent thing on that set would be the orange yolk of a soft boiled egg.<br /> I proceeded to collect all the blue props I could find and started building. An additional touch that helped me enhance the storytelling, was the collaboration with Queen Of Embroidery - Neveen Wassef. She hand embroidered my favorite quote as well as an unfinished dove on a circular canvas in Sashiko stitching to match the little blue bread basket. It was a great delight and an honor to have her contribute to this project.<br /> Two years after I took this photo, I went back and rebuilt the entire set once again in order to create a matching video for the story and enter an online challenge. That video also won the Best Video award.<br /> The Blue Breakfast is still one of my proudest pieces and I believe that it holds symbolic value that reflects the sadness that goes on in the world, while we still manage to enjoy our lavish breakfasts.

I had this vision of a monochromatic blue set and the most prominent thing on that set would be the orange yolk of a soft boiled egg.
I proceeded to collect all the blue props I could find and started building. An additional touch that helped me enhance the storytelling, was the collaboration with Queen Of Embroidery - Neveen Wassef. She hand embroidered my favorite quote as well as an unfinished dove on a circular canvas in Sashiko stitching to match the little blue bread basket. It was a great delight and an honor to have her contribute to this project.
Two years after I took this photo, I went back and rebuilt the entire set once again in order to create a matching video for the story and enter an online challenge. That video also won the Best Video award.
The Blue Breakfast is still one of my proudest pieces and I believe that it holds symbolic value that reflects the sadness that goes on in the world, while we still manage to enjoy our lavish breakfasts.

116th Collection