Tools of the Trade is a short publication showing the true face of the profession of chef. The idea to shoot them this way, was a reaction to the over - saturation of magazine images currently on the market. In my opinion they present un-true portrait. Being a chef involves getting burnt or having cuts. The scars, blue plasters, dirty nails tell a different story to the ones found in cookery books.

I understand why these sorts of photos aren’t included in the latest tome about baking. They are ugly, but I love them though, it’s their honesty that endears me towards them. It allows me to trust them.

There are many stories about fake food photog-raphy, but it’s not just the food that is faked, it’s often the lifestyle portraits as well. With this series I aimed (and I hope succeeded) in being com-pletly truthful. This are simply an images of peo-ple who works with food, and of course the tools of their trade.

age: 32nationality: Polishworkplace: restaurant Prezzooccupancy: head chefserious injury: deep cut by chopper into his right hand pointer finger during meat preparation, the result is a shorter finger by a few centimeters.

Tom Zawadzki ‘Zawada’

age: 34nationality: Englishworkplace: Prezzooccupancy: sous chefserious injury: burns on palms of both hands dur-ing pasta preparation by hot pans.

Jerry Robertson

age: 28nationality: Lithuanian workplace: Prezzooccupancy: station chefserious injury: burns from boiling wateron both hands during cooking vegetables.

Vincent Jankevicius

age: 27nationality: Polishworkplace: Prezzooccupancy: station chefserious injury: broken little and ring fingers caused by ice room door, during convalescence.

Mathew Klimek ‘Klimas’

age: 26nationality: Polishworkplace: Prezzooccupancy: station chefserious injury: burns from piz-za furnance on both forearms.

Sebastian Sowa

age: 24nationality: Polishworkplace: Fryderyk Chopinoccupancy: station chefserious injury: so far nothing serious worth mention.

Adam Wozniak ‘Woziu’

age: 29nationality: Polishworkplace: Fryderyk Chopinoccupancy: head chefserious injury: many burns on hands and arms dur-ing work in kitchen.

Paul Ratajczak ‘Tofic’

age: 26nationality: Hungarianworkplace: Pizza Expressoccupancy: station chefserious injury: deep cut in right hand pointer finger while chopping tomatoes, while distracted by a waiter.

Marton Buday

age: 35nationality: Bulgarianworkplace: Pizza Expressoccupancy: station chefserious injury: hand burns from a pizza oven and pizza pans.

Dimitar Hubenov

age: 30nationality: Polishworkplace: Pizza Expressoccupancy: station chefserious injury: many cuts in fingers during work in kitchen.

Bartek Lomsza

Magdalena Nowak - Self Directed Study - Level 3 - UWE 2012