IMAGES of food, in the field or on its way to the dinner table, form the mainstay of the finalists' repertoire in the 'Bring Home The Harvest' category of the recently announced Pink Lady® Food Photographer of the Year 2023 awards. As reported previously by Slurrp, the overall winner this year is Jon Enoch, a UK-based photgrapher who submitted a portrait of a candy floss seller from Mumbai for the competition.
'In the Storm' by Khanh Phan Thi, from Vietnam, was the winner in this category. It depicts the Lap An Lagoon in Hue province, in the throes of a storm.
As part of our ongoing coverage of the Pink Lady® Food Photographer of the Year 2023, we're taking a look at the seven finalists in the 'Bring Home The Harvest' category.
'Stormy Transportation' by Syed Amir Hosain
Photo taken in Bandarban, Bangladesh. This is a hilly area of Bangladesh where transportation is not easy and it is even more difficult in rainy weather. In the picture, the people of the hill tribal community are transporting vegetables in the stormy weather.
Photo © Syed Amir Hosain and Pink Lady® Food Photographer of the Year 2023
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'In the Storm' by Khanh Phan Thi
Lap An Lagoon in Hue province in the dry season. When the water recedes, the fish are stuck in puddles and when the tide is low, people often go fishing here. When I arrived at Lap An Lagoon, the storm came. The people who were with me were very afraid of lightning, but I stayed to witness the change of the storm when Heaven and Earth seemed to be connected by wind and water. I tried to stay calm, to forget my fear and shoot this moment. I think things that survive in harsh conditions are always great.
Photo © Khanh Phan Thi and Pink Lady® Food Photographer of the Year 2023
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'Women Harvest Lettuce' by Guilherme Lima
Three women, coincidentally all in red, harvest lettuce for their livelihood, just after sunrise. It's early on a cold morning, with blue sky and some clouds above the mountains.
Photo © Guilherme Lima and Pink Lady® Food Photographer of the Year 2023
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'Honey Collection in Sundarbans' by Muhammad Mostafigur Rahman
Traditional honey collectors collect wild honey in Sundarbans, the largest mangrove forest in the world and a UNESCO world heritage site in Bangladesh. Honey collection may sound like a normal rural occupation but it is perhaps the most dangerous job in the world. As they move about in search of beehives in the wild, honey collectors run the risk of meeting ferocious and deadly Royal Bengal tigers, crocodiles, venomous snakes and other wild animals.
Photo © Muhammad Mostafigur Rahman and Pink Lady® Food Photographer of the Year 2023
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'Style of Indian Fishing' by Deba Prasad Roy
Photographed in a village in West Bengal, India. Fishermen generally use big nets to catch fish in rivers and ponds in this very unique style of casting their nets as a synchronised group. This will be a memorable event for them.
Photo © Deba Prasad Roy and Pink Lady® Food Photographer of the Year 2023
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'Sheep's Last Ride' by Ryan Kost
Naserio carries a sheep on its last ride up and over Cuyoc Pass (16,500ft) in the Cordillera Huayhuash in Peru. The sheep was to be our dinner at camp that evening for a community feast called a Pachamanca. We built and prepared an earth oven called a huatia, super-heating rocks on which we cook the meat.
Photo © Ryan Kost and Pink Lady® Food Photographer of the Year 2023
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'Salt Farm Workers Harvesting' by Saurabh Sirohiya
Some labourers at work in a salt pan where they move the salt to form circular lines allowing slow evaporation under the hot sun. At the end of the day the salt will be collected in baskets. It's a really hard job!
Photo © Saurabh Sirohiya and Pink Lady® Food Photographer of the Year 2023
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