Jekyll2023-08-12T04:14:44+00:00https://www.forbesconrad.com/feed.xmlForbes ConradForbes Conrad makes portraits, food photographs, industrial images, and feature photography. He is based in south China near Guangzhou, Hong Kong, and Shenzhen.{"name"=>nil, "avatar"=>nil, "bio"=>"Feel free to contact me via email or phone. +1 917 979 4221 rings through internationally; local numbers available upon request.", "location"=>nil, "email"=>nil, "uri"=>nil, "tel"=>nil, "home"=>nil, "bitbucket"=>nil, "codepen"=>nil, "dribbble"=>nil, "flickr"=>nil, "facebook"=>nil, "foursquare"=>nil, "github"=>nil, "gitlab"=>nil, "google_plus"=>nil, "keybase"=>nil, "instagram"=>nil, "lastfm"=>nil, "linkedin"=>nil, "pinterest"=>nil, "soundcloud"=>nil, "stackoverflow"=>nil, "steam"=>nil, "tumblr"=>nil, "twitter"=>nil, "vine"=>nil, "weibo"=>nil, "xing"=>nil, "youtube"=>nil}Case Study - House 1881 Food Photography in Hong Kong2019-11-28T00:00:00+00:002019-11-28T00:00:00+00:00https://www.forbesconrad.com/case-studies/heritage-1881-food<p><strong>Client:</strong> House 1881 Hotel</p>
<p><strong>Creative direction:</strong> These food photographs are part of the hotel’s recent rebranding project where I also made new <a href="/case-studies/house-1881-interiors-hong-kong/">interior photographs</a> of their signature facilities in Hong Kong.</p>
<p>A glossy editorial look is what the client had in mind for the the food and dining photographs. We made all the images on location at House 1881’s various venues. The backgrounds in the images employ materials found on site in order to reflect part of the property in each of the images.</p>
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</figure>{"name"=>nil, "avatar"=>nil, "bio"=>"Feel free to contact me via email or phone. +1 917 979 4221 rings through internationally; local numbers available upon request.", "location"=>nil, "email"=>nil, "uri"=>nil, "tel"=>nil, "home"=>nil, "bitbucket"=>nil, "codepen"=>nil, "dribbble"=>nil, "flickr"=>nil, "facebook"=>nil, "foursquare"=>nil, "github"=>nil, "gitlab"=>nil, "google_plus"=>nil, "keybase"=>nil, "instagram"=>nil, "lastfm"=>nil, "linkedin"=>nil, "pinterest"=>nil, "soundcloud"=>nil, "stackoverflow"=>nil, "steam"=>nil, "tumblr"=>nil, "twitter"=>nil, "vine"=>nil, "weibo"=>nil, "xing"=>nil, "youtube"=>nil}Food photographs for House 1881 hotel in Hong Kong.Case Study - House 1881 Interior Photography in Hong Kong2019-11-27T00:00:00+00:002019-11-27T00:00:00+00:00https://www.forbesconrad.com/case-studies/heritage-1881-interiors<p><strong>Client:</strong> House 1881 hotel in Kowloon, Hong Kong</p>
<p><strong>Creative direction:</strong> House 1881 invited me to make a completely new set of interior photographs and <a href="/case-studies/food-photography-house-1881-hong-kong/">food images</a> as part of their recent rebranding project.</p>
<p>The direction for the interiors was to show the spaces in a literal, expansive manner that emphasizes space’s features. In the case of the hotel rooms, that translated to using lighting that demonstrates the hotel’s harbor-facing windows. Hong Kong is not a place where strong natural light is reliably present, so all the images were heavily lit but many of them in a manner that simulates evening sun streaming in through the windows.</p>
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</figure>{"name"=>nil, "avatar"=>nil, "bio"=>"Feel free to contact me via email or phone. +1 917 979 4221 rings through internationally; local numbers available upon request.", "location"=>nil, "email"=>nil, "uri"=>nil, "tel"=>nil, "home"=>nil, "bitbucket"=>nil, "codepen"=>nil, "dribbble"=>nil, "flickr"=>nil, "facebook"=>nil, "foursquare"=>nil, "github"=>nil, "gitlab"=>nil, "google_plus"=>nil, "keybase"=>nil, "instagram"=>nil, "lastfm"=>nil, "linkedin"=>nil, "pinterest"=>nil, "soundcloud"=>nil, "stackoverflow"=>nil, "steam"=>nil, "tumblr"=>nil, "twitter"=>nil, "vine"=>nil, "weibo"=>nil, "xing"=>nil, "youtube"=>nil}Interior photographs for the House 1881 hotel in Hong Kong.Case Study - Mocha Café Menu2019-01-06T00:00:00+00:002019-01-06T00:00:00+00:00https://www.forbesconrad.com/case-studies/mocha-cafe-menu<figure class="half ">
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<p><strong>Client:</strong> Mocha Café brand, a Melco Resorts holding</p>
<p><strong>Creative direction:</strong> Menus that alternate between pages of food photographs and pages of text present a challenging marketing proposition: Restaurant customers, at least in Macau, most often order the dishes they see in the pictures; menus, though, often include more dishes than restaurateurs prefer to photograph singly or in small groups.</p>
<p>With the new Mocha Café brand menu, the client’s solution was to pull back a bit and show a larger number of dishes per photograph. We worked with the culinary team create a unique stylized layout for the dishes in each image with an emphasis on the fresh, vibrant nature of the cuisine.</p>
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<p><strong>Creative direction:</strong> Since moving from Hong Kong to lead The Tasting Room in Macau, chef Fabrice Vulin has been working to document each of his new seasonal menus in their entirety. Every few months we have been photographing a broad selection of his new creations.</p>
<p>Our approach to the photographs is to show the food with little, if anything else in the image to distract from the artistry of the chef’s plating.</p>
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<p><strong>Creative direction:</strong> While the Pierre Hermé brand in Macau is perhaps most immediately associated with the Pierre Hermé Lounge in the Morpheus hotel, the “Picasso of Pastry” has a far greater reach in the city. These images are part of an effort to create a brand library for the opening of the hotel, while also populating digital menus and catalogs throughout the resort with pastries that may be ordered for other contexts.</p>
<p>The images, as a result, exist in a realm somewhere between cold catalog product photographs and creative food photography.</p>
<p>For the duration of the shoot, we worked at a studio we set up in a room adjacent executive chef Sebastien Bauer’s kitchen. Photographing food in a working kitchen always comes with challenges but the collaborative immediacy nearly always outweighs the space constraints.</p>
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<p><strong>Client:</strong> Northern Noodle House Restaurant, a Melco Resorts brand</p>
<p><strong>Creative direction:</strong> The <a href="/case-studies/ji-xiang-noodle-house-menu">previous version</a> of the Northern Noodle House menu is also a project I photographed but with a far different style; at the time, the client’s direction for all its food marketing and menu pictures was to emphasize location and ingredients. The client’s new food projects are designed to be clean, minimal, and modern.</p>
<p>For these images, we set up a location studio space in a private dining room at the restaurant. The client selected a variety of our gray ceramic tiles as background materials for staging the pictures.</p>
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<p><strong>Creative direction:</strong> Chandelier Creative and food stylist Mariana Velasquez designed a clean, contemporary aesthetic for the in-room dining menu at the new Morpheus hotel. Other than staging the food photographs on white linen, the images do away with everything extraneous to the mission of the endeavor - the food - while maintaining a distinct visual aesthetic in keeping with the client’s broader brand image.</p>
<p>Shortly before the opening of Morpheus, both myself and David Hartung worked with Velasques, Chandelier, and the client’s culinary team to make these and other images for the opening of the hotel. With little space available in the schedule or hotel, we worked simultaneously to create a visually-unified library of food marketing and menu images for use across the property.</p>
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<p><strong>Creative direction:</strong> Before the opening of Morpheus in Macau, the client invited both David Hartung and myself to produce a extensive library of menu and food marketing photographs at the nearly-completed hotel. Due to the volume of dishes and condensed schedule involved, we worked simultaneously in separate on-location studio spaces to complete the images. During the shoot, Mariana Velasquez, the food stylist, and the culinary teams for the property’s various Chinese and western restaurants moved between their kitchens and our studio spaces.</p>
<p>These images are primarily for the in-restaurant digital menus at the casino-adjacent and fine dining venues in the hotel. We also photographed <a href="/case-studies/morpheus-in-room-dining/">in-room dining</a> pictures as part of the same project.</p>
<p>Chandelier Creative designed the brand identity for the property, and with it introduced the clean, minimal aesthetic reflected in these images.</p>
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<p><strong>Creative direction:</strong> It was exciting to produce a new menu concept unique to this brand in Macau. Many casual restaurants in the city feature print menus that alternate pages between text; for this menu, the client elected to pursue an entirely picture-based design. Each page is a stylized representation of one complete segment of the restaurant’s selection.</p>
<p>Due to the restaurant’s extensive hours of operation, it was necessary to set up a studio in a private dining room at the restaurant for the duration of the project. We sourced background materials locally based on the client’s visual brief. While many of the client’s restaurants unapologetically cater to an elite fine dining crowd, the styling for this menu needed to professional yet decidedly more approachable.</p>
<p>In addition to the food pictures for the menu, we also produced architectural interior images of the venue for use in the new menu and in the client’s marketing library.</p>
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</figure>{"name"=>nil, "avatar"=>nil, "bio"=>"Feel free to contact me via email or phone. +1 917 979 4221 rings through internationally; local numbers available upon request.", "location"=>nil, "email"=>nil, "uri"=>nil, "tel"=>nil, "home"=>nil, "bitbucket"=>nil, "codepen"=>nil, "dribbble"=>nil, "flickr"=>nil, "facebook"=>nil, "foursquare"=>nil, "github"=>nil, "gitlab"=>nil, "google_plus"=>nil, "keybase"=>nil, "instagram"=>nil, "lastfm"=>nil, "linkedin"=>nil, "pinterest"=>nil, "soundcloud"=>nil, "stackoverflow"=>nil, "steam"=>nil, "tumblr"=>nil, "twitter"=>nil, "vine"=>nil, "weibo"=>nil, "xing"=>nil, "youtube"=>nil}Menu photography project at Golden Pavilion. The menu pictures were created on site at the restaurant in Macau.Food Photography at Spiga in Hong Kong2018-01-29T00:00:00+00:002018-01-29T00:00:00+00:00https://www.forbesconrad.com/case-studies/food-photography-at-spiga-in-hong-kong<p><img src="/assets/images/posts/fc20161216spiga640830-merged.jpg" alt="Interior photo at Spiga restaurant in Hong Kong" /></p>
<p>Dining Concepts asked me to make a few new marketing pictures at SPIGA Hong Kong last year. The restaurant is located in the center of Central, so to speak, in one of the many steel and glass buildings that line Queen’s Road.
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<p>The interior was imagined by celebrity designer Joyce Wang and has a hip mid-century theme that verges on steampunk. Brass light fixtures and distressed tile work abound, as do colors and patterns that appear to be plundered from a forgotten far away diner. The indoor architectural theatrics are all framed by the confluence of the restaurant’s decorative sweated copper plumbing and the building’s swanky angular surroundings.</p>
<p><img src="/assets/images/posts/fc20161216spiga641162-merged.jpg" alt="Food photograph of crunchy veal cheek with crispy potatoes millefeuille at Spiga" /></p>
<p>My time at SPIGA was split between photographing a few images of the interior and a number of pictures of the food. The restaurant’s menu was devised by chef Enrico Bartolini along a contemporary Italian theme. My task was to meld the cuisine and the venue for the new marketing photographs.</p>
<p><img src="/assets/images/posts/fc20161222spiga641394-merged.jpg" alt="Linguini, prawn and asparagus food photo" /></p>
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<figcaption>Homemade button shaped pasta filled with lime emulsion, topped with Caciucco sauce</figcaption>
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<figcaption>Polletto arrosto: Roasted chicken marinated with chilli, garlic, mustard and rosemary with bell peppers.</figcaption>
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<p><img src="/assets/images/posts/fc20161216spiga640890-merged-crop.jpg" alt="Spiga restaurant interior by designer Joyce Wang in Central" /></p>{"name"=>nil, "avatar"=>nil, "bio"=>"Feel free to contact me via email or phone. +1 917 979 4221 rings through internationally; local numbers available upon request.", "location"=>nil, "email"=>nil, "uri"=>nil, "tel"=>nil, "home"=>nil, "bitbucket"=>nil, "codepen"=>nil, "dribbble"=>nil, "flickr"=>nil, "facebook"=>nil, "foursquare"=>nil, "github"=>nil, "gitlab"=>nil, "google_plus"=>nil, "keybase"=>nil, "instagram"=>nil, "lastfm"=>nil, "linkedin"=>nil, "pinterest"=>nil, "soundcloud"=>nil, "stackoverflow"=>nil, "steam"=>nil, "tumblr"=>nil, "twitter"=>nil, "vine"=>nil, "weibo"=>nil, "xing"=>nil, "youtube"=>nil}Dining Concepts asked me to make a few new marketing pictures at SPIGA Hong Kong last year. The restaurant is located in the center of Central, so to speak, in one of the many steel and glass buildings that line Queen’s Road.