Sarah Crawford
Sarah Crawford is a 30 year old business founder, content creator, photographer, and teacher. Sarah grew up baking, baking was always a family affair for her, she was taught by her mother who was taught by her father. In 2010, Sarah combined her childhood love of photography and her lifelong love of baking and created Broma bakery, a baking blog sharing all of her mothers recipes. When she graduated college she worked as a catering director for several restaurants and they all asked her to take on social media for the restaurants.
Sarah Crawford's style is rather simple, she primarily takes pictures of food items. Since she is only trying to capture the subject, her backgrounds tend to be simple/ plain white. In her images the lighting is usually from the top right based on how the shadows are casted, it seems to vary how intense the shadows are, perhaps due to variation of still life setup.
Sarah originally created broma bakery because she was homesick and missed her mothers cooking so she took her mothers recipes and photographed the end results, she was initially successful doing that so she expanded to other recipes and it become a sort of creative outlet for her. Now her photographs find new interesting recipes to give others ideas for things they might want to make.
Sarah Crawford influenced me to find ways to make a clean even background from materials in my own home, If you compare my pictures below to those in my still life project you can see a distinctly nicer background.
Sarah Crawford's style is rather simple, she primarily takes pictures of food items. Since she is only trying to capture the subject, her backgrounds tend to be simple/ plain white. In her images the lighting is usually from the top right based on how the shadows are casted, it seems to vary how intense the shadows are, perhaps due to variation of still life setup.
Sarah originally created broma bakery because she was homesick and missed her mothers cooking so she took her mothers recipes and photographed the end results, she was initially successful doing that so she expanded to other recipes and it become a sort of creative outlet for her. Now her photographs find new interesting recipes to give others ideas for things they might want to make.
Sarah Crawford influenced me to find ways to make a clean even background from materials in my own home, If you compare my pictures below to those in my still life project you can see a distinctly nicer background.
The image on the left is the original, and the image on the right is mine for every image
In the original the image is in slightly better clarity, which is likely due to being taken by a superior camera. In the original the pepperonis are cooked more and burnt around the edges, the crust looks a little more browned. The original image is taken in more even light.
The original image is closer to the cosmic brownies, This was intentional because my camera had problems with close-up focus. The original image uses home made brownies while mine uses branded cosmic brownies which have a less rich brown color.
This image is by far my favorite one. The primary difference is in the texture of the cookie and the intensity of the shadows. My lighting came from above instead of from the right like in the original image, this is because my image was taken outside while the original is from inside.
Artist statement
I really wish I could say my photos depicted some great tale of heroism but its really not the case, while i was thinking of what artist to do i checked Instagram and found Sarah Crawford, noticed they had several images that I could recreate, and decided that an opportunity like that would probably not come again. Part of my goal with these images were to recreate them with as little budget as possible, the total cost of these images was the cost of the food that I took pictures of, the white background was made out of a white shelf that I took apart, The cookies and brownies are laying on a baking sheet.
https://www.cheryls.com/blog/broma-bakery-sarah-crawford-profile/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-crawford-95927891
https://bromabakery.com/about/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-crawford-95927891
https://bromabakery.com/about/