© Carl Werner

Organic cre­ation meets human imagination.

Carl Werner has some proof that nature has every­thing that even our wildest imag­i­na­tion envision:

“Although I’m very hands on with my work, I do use model mak­ers and food styl­ists to help me cre­ate the sets. I tend to start with a draw­ing which I sketch out in order to get the com­po­si­tion worked out, this acts as a blue print for the team to work to.” … These images can take up to two or three days to build and pho­to­graph and then a cou­ple of days retouch­ing and fine tun­ing the images to blend all the ele­ments together. Carl spends a lot of time plan­ning each image before shoot­ing in order to choose the best ingre­di­ents to repli­cate larger scale shapes and forms within nature, so he spends a lot of time star­ing at veg­eta­bles in super­mar­kets which makes him seem a lit­tle odd! However, he is care­ful to point out that find­ing the right shaped broc­coli to use as a tree is an all impor­tant task.

So there you go again, it’s all about inter­ac­tion (super­mar­ket vis­its, food research), imag­i­na­tion (helped with his draw­ing), and col­lab­o­ra­tion (food styl­ists, model makers).

The Foodscapes is part of a new book that has just been revised this month: Carl Warner’s Food Landscapes. (Buy from this link, I get a kick­back), or you can buy the indi­vid­ual prints.