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Seared scallops with charred leek on a slate plate, carved out of shadow by tall window light

Meridian Table

Client
Meridian
Discipline
Food photography
Year
2025
Location
Manchester
Usage
Identity, menus, press

Meridian seats twenty two people and changes its menu when the market does. The brief was one line: photograph the food the way the room feels at eight in the evening. We shot over two services with available window light and a single bounce, and kept every shadow the kitchen earned.

A chef's hands spooning brown butter over a fillet in a carbon steel pan
Service, first sitting
Overhead frame of torn sourdough, cultured butter and a pewter knife on walnut
Bread course
Dark chocolate and stout dessert on a black ceramic plate in hard side light
Last course
The empty dining room at dusk, brass candlelight on four walnut tables
The room, before doors
The chef alone at the pass wiping a plate rim under one pool of tungsten light
End of service
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