Mido
Barsoum
🇪🇬 Egypt
Budapest (Hungary)
50$ per hour | 4 hours minimum
With us
1 year
Studio Name
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.
Winning photos
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.
