Debdatta Chakraborty's photograph shows a vendor in Srinagar, India, tending to his grilled kebabs and surrounded by cloudy smoke after firing up his charcoal oven.
For the stunning image titled Kebabiyana, the Indian photographer won the Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year 2022 award.
Five photographers in the UAE were also honoured in the competition. Ameyaa Akhil Vinayak won second place in the Young (10-and-under) category for her image of fish in ice.
Manju Jisto was Highly Commended in The Claire Aho Award for Women Photographers category with Banana Blossom, a beautiful shot of banana blossom gathered in Kerala, India. The image also won Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year (The Gulf) award, which goes to the most outstanding photographs from photographers in the GCC.
Second place in the category went to Shyjith Onden Cheriyath for Goat Attack, which showed a date farmer in Fujairah near Wadi Shees, while third place was awarded to Thushara Kambil for his experimental shot, New Life.
Christopher de Castro Comeso was Highly Commended for Feast For Faith, which captured Eid Al Adha preparations, while Jure Ursic was also Highly Commended for Singing with the Food, which showed an image of a waiter singing during the service of chicken souvlaki.
"As Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year enters its second decade, never has the importance of photography and food been so great," says Phil Turnbull, chief executive of APAL, the owner of Pink Lady.
"Huge global events — war, famine, the end of lockdowns, the revival of the hospitality industry, the chance to celebrate with friends and family again — all these are recorded in the Awards, which show so vividly how food touches every aspect of our lives. The competition continues to be a truly global celebration of the art of food photography.”
Here's the full list of winners:
Overall Winner (and Street Food)
Kebabiyana, Debdatta Chakraborty, India
Bring Home the Harvest
Movement Of Noodles, Chang Jiangbin, China
Champagne Taittinger Food for Celebration
Traditional Skill, Chen Ying, China
Champagne Taittinger Wedding Food Photographer
Lemon Cake, Isabelle Hattink, Netherlands
Errazuriz Wine Photographer of the Year - Overall Winner (and People)
Gathering prunings on Corton Hill, Jon Wyand, United Kingdom
Errazuriz Wine Photographer of the Year - Places
Architecture And Wine, Marina Spironetti, Italy
Errazuriz Wine Photographer of the Year - Produce
On Ice, Suzanne Becker Bronk, United States
Food at the Table
Putting On The Ritz, John Carey, United Kingdom
Food for the Family
Traditional Food, Weining Lin, China
Food in the Field
Agricultural Art, Paolo Crocetta, Italy
Food Stylist Award
Pumpkin Buns; Berry Jewels On Semolina Pudding; Summer Veg Tart; Strawberry & Rhubarb Pie; Blood Orange Madeleines, Carolin Strothe, Germany
Fujifilm Award for Innovation
Central Park, Yuliy Vasilev, Bulgaria
Marks & Spencer Food Portraiture
Watermelon & Feta Salad, Daniela Gerson, US
MPB Food Influencer
Draining Pasta By The Window, Elisa De Cecchi, Italy
On the Phone
Drying Stockfish, Kasia Ciesielska-Faber, United Kingdom
One Vision Imaging Cream of the Crop
Carrot Field Forever, Paolo Grinza and Silvia Vaula, Italy
Pink Lady Apple a Day
Autumnal Woodland Apple Party, Amanda Farnese Heath, United Kingdom
Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year (African Territory)
Flower girl with a packet of Simba chippies, Marguerite Oelofse, South Africa
Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year (Chile)
Grape Hat, Matt Wilson, Chile
Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year (Europe)
Pasta And Fake Curls, Remko Kraaijeveld, Netherlands
Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year (The Gulf)
Banana Blossom, Manju Jisto, United Arab Emirates
Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year (New Zealand)
Boning Competition, Christall Lowe
Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year (South East Asia)
Anchovy Catching, Thien Nguyen Ngoc, Vietnam
Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year (USA)
Home Box Office, Sriram Rajmohan, US
Politics of Food
Where Dreams Fly Away, K M Asad, Bangladesh
Production Paradise Previously Published
Red Mullet, Mike English, United Kingdom
Student Food Photographer of the Year supported by The Royal Photographic Society
Pot Of Tea, Kim Bainbridge, United Kingdom
The Claire Aho Award for Women Photographers
At The Table, Marguerite Oelofse, South Africa
The Philip Harben Award for Food in Action
Cook, Weining Lin, China
Unearthed Food for Sale
Herbwoman, Anna Loraine Hartmann, Germany
World Food Programme Food for Life
Food After Work, Faisal Azim, Bangladesh
Young (10-and0under)
Processing Fish, Rupkotha Roy Barai, Bangladesh
Young (11 - 14)
Chhath Puja Offerings, Indigo Larmour, India
Young (15 - 17)
Food-processing, Joyjit Das, Bangladesh
Food Film Shorts
DaCrema Image Video, Miklos Terei, Hungary
