World Food Photography Awards - Museum of the Home

Museum of the Home welcomes a new exhibition of world-class photographs selected for the World Food Photography Awards sponsored by Tenderstem® Bimi® Broccolini. With over 25 categories, the award recognises that food touches lives in a diversity of ways – from growing, harvesting and cooking, to eating, celebrating, and surviving.

The World Food Photography Awards sponsored by Tenderstem® Bimi® Broccolini celebrate food stories from around the world, told through landscape, portrait, travel, wedding, photojournalistic and every other style of photography.

This exhibition will feature selected works exploring the connections between food and home—from photo-journalistic images that show the reality of political issues relating to food and food bringing people together for healing and joy, to families eating in an everyday context and beautiful scenes of food shot on mobile phone.

Award categories include Fortnum & Mason Food at the Table, The Jamie Oliver Youth Prize, On The Phone in support of Action Against Hunger, Marks & Spencer Food Portraiture, Food for the Family supported by The Felix Project and World Food Programme Food For Life.

This year’s global judging panel for the World Food Photography Awards will be chaired by legendary food photographer, David Loftus. Museum of the Home’s own Director Sonia Solicari will be a judge alongside the likes of Claire Reichenbach (CEO, The James Beard Foundation), Tom Athron (CEO, Fortnum & Mason), Max La Manna (Award-winning author and low-waste Chef), Jamie Oliver (Chef, Restaurateur and Food Campaigner), Alison Morley (Chair Emerita, International Center for Photography, NYC) – and many more.

By shining a spotlight on photography, we are opening up new conversations about what home means in the past, present, and future. Join us in this visual journey that captures the heart of home through the lens of a camera

Danielle Patten, Director of Creative Programmes and Collections

Works from photographers across the world will be on display at the Mall Galleries in May 2025, as well as Fortnum & Mason and Museum of the Home in June.

Photo gallery

Installation view of World Food Photography Awards Exhibition at Museum of the Home. Photo by Henry Kenyon

Private view of World Food Photography Awards Exhibition at Museum of the Home. Photo credit: Hallie Adukë Primus

In a steamy kitchen, rays of sunlight pierce through the roof, illuminating stacks of delicate rice cakes as a person carefully handles them amidst towering metal vats. — World Food Photography Awards | "Banh Hoi Cake" by Hoai Anh Dang, Champagne Taittinger Food for Celebration, 1st place

Three people in red aprons and blue latex gloves are washing pans by the sink, viewed through a misted window. The person on the left pours water from a metal pot into another that the person in the middle is holding. The person on the right is looking down at the pot he is holding. — World Food Photography Awards | "In the Mix" by JJ Keith, World Food Programme Food For Life, 3rd place

Amidst a snowy field, a group of nomads of Western Mongolia wrapped in thick furs, kneel in circle for a quick meal. Surrounded by grazing horses. — World Food Photography Awards | "Soup break" by Alessandra Manzotti, Food for the Family supported by The Felix Project, Highly Commended

In a rustic, dimly lit kitchen, an elderly person pours water from a ladle into a traditional stone stove as steam rises into the air. Nearby, an elderly person stokes the fire with glowing embers. Around them are piles of chopped wood, vegetables on a wooden table, and kitchen tools. — World Food Photography Awards | "The Taste of Home" by Chunshui Yu, Food for the Family, 3rd place

A woman in a floral robe and hijab leans by a kitchen sink, facing a cracked window pierced by bullet holes. — World Food Photography Awards | "Bullets in the Kitchen" by Aruallan, Politics of Food, Highly Commended

An older man dressed in blue garments sitting by the window in a mall, tightly arranged room. He leans one arm on a wooden table beside a steaming glass. window, framed by dark green shutters and a patterned blue curtain. — World Food Photography Awards | "Coffee Break in the Hungarian Plains" by Michela Balboni, World of Drinks, 2nd place

An elderly woman in a patterned apron stands in a softly lit, vintage-styled bedroom, hands on hips, surveying trays of golden homemade pasta laid out on a bed and table. — World Food Photography Awards | "Delfina, a pasta granny" by Lizzie Mayson, Claire Aho Award for Women Photographers, 1st place

Inside a temple, two monks in dark orange robes sit in quiet conversation, surrounded by an elaborate spread of fruits, such as dragon fruits and apples, and flowers arranged on ornate golden pedestal trays. These trays are carefully placed on richly patterned carpets that add warmth and detail to the setting. In the background, Buddhist statues and floral offerings line the altar. — World Food Photography Awards | "Buddhist Offerings" by Ryan Kost, The Bimi® Prize, 1st place

Inside a food stall, a person in a checkered shirt stands in the foreground, mid-motion as he lifts an enormous golden doughy flatbread into a sizzling deep fryer. In the back are two people in white clothes, working on food. — World Food Photography Awards | "Ramadan Special Paratha Halwa" by Debdatta Chakraborty, Street Food, 1st place

Private view of World Food Photography Awards Exhibition at Museum of the Home. Photo by Hallie Adukë Primus

A circle of people in thin, vibrant, patterned clothes gathered on sandy ground, one of them holding a bowl. A calm dog stands among them. Smoke rises gently from the middle of the group (likely from a fire made with gathered tree branches, though the flames are hidden from view). The smoke drifts upward and outward, partially veiling the bare tree trunks and rustic wooden fence in the background. — World Food Photography Awards | "The Heart of the Family, Angola" by Sue O’Connell, Food for the Family, 2nd place

A crowd wrapped in shawls and winter layers queues closely around a steaming street food stall. The golden sunlight shines on them. — World Food Photography Awards | "Gather " by Min Li, Street Food, 2nd place

A group of women sit and wait in front of a market as they wait for free bread. — World Food Photography Awards | "Afghan Refugee Women Wait for Free Bread Handout" by Jo Kearney, Politics of Food, 1st place

A blurred figure walks across a room in front of weathered looking panels and windows showing a model of a city.

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