Author Archives: sarahcoghill

KATOxVictoria architects, for The Nordic Courier Japan

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I have just posted a new gallery of images on my website : Kato x Victoria architects Copenhagen, from a shoot earlier this year for The Nordic Courier Japan. Beautiful, delicate architectural models, encapsulating a perfect fusion of Nordic and Japanese aesthetics. Big thanks to Hiroshi and Victoria and their team for a great shoot.

Roe has never looked this beautiful!

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Lumpfish roe and leeks are the two seasonal ingredients that I shot for the current issue of Copenhagen Food magazine. This beautiful dish featuring the roe was one of my favourites from the shoot – beautiful colours and perfectly plated by Marcus Sandemann – and of course it also tastes fantastic! See this and 5 other dishes by Marcus, together with my photographs, in issue #22, out now. You can also find the recipes and photographs on the website of Torvehallerne food hall, Copenhagen.

Nominated for the Mad+Medier Food Photography prize

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I am so completely thrilled and excited to find out that I am nominated for the Food Photography prize in this years mad+medier awards! (Danish food + media awards). Thanks to those who nominated me, and big congratulations to my fellow nominees in all the categories. I’m looking forward to the fantastic prize night with everyone at the Opera House in June! See the full nominee list for all the categories here.

Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year – one of the sponsor’s favourites

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Derek Poulston, managing director of One Vision Imaging, names my photo as one of his ‘favourites so far’ from the shortlisted entries in the Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year competition, in this blog post on the competition’s website. One Vision are one of the competition sponsors, and print the images for the exhibition. Nice to hear – thanks Derek!

Tears, tantrums, tulips….and a hamster

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I recently shot promo images of ‘The God of Carnage’, the new stage production by That Theatre Company. On the shoot, I got a sneak preview of some of the scenes and lines, and I had already seen the Hollywood movie adaptation a couple of years ago. But nothing quite prepared me for last night, when I watched Ian Burns, Sira Stampe, Adam Brix and Katrin Weisser perform this explosive play in full. Over the course of one scene of 80 minutes in the perfect intimate setting of the Krudttønden stage, the four characters unravelled before our eyes in dramatic and hilarious fashion, switching allegiances, exposing their flaws….and making quite a mess.

I won’t spoil things by explaining what the hamster is about. Or the tulips. Just go and watch the drama unfold! It’s a modern classic, performed brilliantly. Darkly comic and brilliant fun. Don’t miss it!

Photography and poster design by Sarah Coghill.

A healthy fall…

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So it seems that we have finally said goodbye to that fantastic summer, and those darker Autumn days are creeping in. But there’s no need to reach for the stodgy comfort food just yet! Try these wonderful healthy Autumn recipes from Mads Persson of SMAG, with loads of gorgeous seasonal root vegetables. The celeriac with goats cheese and acacia honey is my favourite and it was so pretty to photograph too!…Shot for the current issue of Copenhagen Food magazine, out now.
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Niels Lan Doky, The Standard…and all that jazz!

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I had the pleasure of meeting the amazing and talented jazz pianist Niels Lan Doky on a shoot for Copenhagen Food magazine last month. Niels is one of the partners (Claus Meyer is another), in a new jazz restaurant The Standard Copenhagen which opens this week.
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Hugh of River Cottage comes to Copenhagen

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I was booked to work on a really fantastic shoot yesterday, photographing Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall (of ‘River Cottage’ fame) learning the art of authentic Danish pastry making from baker Thomas Mathiassen of Meyer’s Bageri here in Copenhagen.

Big thanks to Hugh and Thomas for all their co-operation and good humour on a warm morning (and after a very early start!), and to all the lovely people behind the scenes…

There’s nothing quite like the smell of pastries fresh from the Meyer’s oven on Danish summer morning… and ooooh they tasted sooooo good! 🙂

 

Shooting for summer with Copenhagen Food magazine

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Its been a busy and fun month shooting for Copenhagen Food magazine, meeting and working with a host of great people – a profile shoot of chef Francis Cardenau (head chef at Le Sommelier, Copenhagen), ‘make at home’ sushi recipes using local fish by ZoeEscher, perfect picnic dishes with Mads Persson of Smag, plus strawberries and herbs in season with dishes created by Marcus Sandemann.
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Cows in the mist

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Cabrales, a hidden corner of northern Spain. Here, cheese is made by farmers who live in remote stone huts, high in the misty mountains. The cheese is matured from white to blue in damp, dark caves adorned with spiders webs. The pungent smell that greets you when you enter the caves is overwhelming. The only sound as you trek the path to reach them is of cow bells from the cattle, rendered invisible by the all-enveloping mist. Cattle which, when I did eventually come face to face with them, turned out to be the most beautiful (and enormous) cows I have ever seen.

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Essential Spain (for foodies!)

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Travelling to Spain this year? Check out Food and Travel‘s ‘Essential Spain’ supplement included with their July 2013 issue, highlighting the country’s top 100 food experiences – everything from olives to octopus….

It includes the low down on the best food markets, wine, cheese, chefs, sweet treats and loads more. Not to be missed!

Includes photography by myself plus two of Food and Travel’s other regular photographers (the two largest images on the sample pages shown above were shot by me).

 

Viking Sushi in Iceland

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Ever wondered what it might be like to eat raw scallops trawled from the ocean floor just moments before, on the deck of a boat in the middle of the ocean, in the half-light of a winter’s morning in Iceland?! No neither had I, but I got the chance to try just that (an experience known locally as ‘Viking sushi’), courtesy of Isafold Travel in December last year.

It was an exhilerating experience I’ll never forget – fish will never get any fresher than that, the scenery was spectacular and it came complete with soy sauce and a real live viking… Read about it and see the photos in the March/April issue of Copenhagen Food magazine, out now.

See Isalfold Travel’s tours and self-drive information on their website here

Learn more about Iceland at iceland.is

2nd place in the Malta Tourism Press Awards 2012

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Nice news! I have been awarded 2nd place in the MTA Malta Tourism Press Awards 2012, for photographs I shot for a Food and Travel magazine article titled ‘A Knight’s Tale’, published last year.

Thanks to all the lovely people in Malta who made the shoot possible, and to Food and Travel magazine for a great assignment!

To see more photos from the shoot, click this link to the Malta gallery