sexualisation of food: final images

This editorial that I shot with Immi stemmed from our love of still life, and by taking inspiration from artists we love such as Rebecca Storm and Prue Stent, as well as looking at Bompas & Parr’s creative use of food to create sensual moods and environments, we based this editorial around the sexualisation of food in contemporary art and culture and how particular foods and their shapes, colours and textures can be provocative or resemble sexual imagery – for example our selection of very sweet and sugary foods to convey romance, aphrodisiac properties and even using food in sex. e.g. drenching objects in honey and capturing it dripping down and pooling around the objects, using squirty cream and documenting it slowly deflating and running off jelly, the placement of fruit and berries which have often been used to depict fertility or female genitalia.

We wanted our images to be quite kitsch and created bizarre set-ups of edible and non-edible objects. Our images began quite clean and minimal but we found that when we added more and more to the arrangements the images really came alive and had the appearance that we wanted, and fit our concept more.