Marks & Spencer has joined forces with Pink Lady's Food Photographer of the Year prize.
The award, which aims to recognise the art and diversity of food photography, welcomes the retailer as a sponsor of the Food Portraiture category, which will be shown at London's Mall Galleries in 2015.
Steve Rowe, executive director for food at Marks & Spencer, and a long-standing member of the prize's judging panel, said: “We are absolutely delighted to be collaborating with the Awards and this category in particular.
“We put a huge emphasis on the quality and innovation in the photography we are using for our current Adventures In marketing campaign and therefore we know how vitally important it is to create beautiful images of food and how skilled an art it is.”
The Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year, founded in 2011, attracts thousands of entries from across the world, and explores the depiction of food from its production and preparation to the cultural role it plays in society and now includes film shorts as well.
Caroline Kenyon, founder and director of Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year, said: “It’s a huge pleasure to welcome Marks & Spencer as part of the awards family.
“They have been renowned for their brilliant use of sumptuous food imagery, which makes them the perfect partner for this category.”
New judges for 2015 include Anglo-French chef Michel Roux Jr., Emily Luchetti, chair of the James Beard Foundation, USA, and George Motz, founder and director of the Food Film Festival NYC.
British photgrapher Tessa Bunney won the 2014 prize.
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