Kemble House

@kemblehouse

Warehouse studio & event space for hire in SE London, by photographer @stevenjoycephoto & writer @bexseal . Shoots, dinners, workshops, meetings.
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📸 Hi, I’m Steve and I’ve been a photographer for almost two decades. I’ve worked on more than 35 cookbooks and done over 1,240 shoots (and counting). I just got new headshots done, and that felt like a good excuse to re-introduce myself. 👋🏻 I shoot food, drink, interiors and people. I always get asked “Do you get to eat the food?” And the answer is yes, if I possibly can! (That’s the best bit. Even if I once bit into a burger and realised it was custard instead of cheese.) 🍔 As well as my own I work in studios and on cookbooks, I post about food photography, from briefs and shot lists to what happens on set – and everything in between. If you’re interested in food photography, cookbooks, or how these shoots come together, I’ll be sharing more here. I also co-founded Kemble House studio with my wife @bexseal in Forest Hill, South East London (when we had a one-year-old and a three-year-old!) which we’ve been running for the past 8 years. It has been hired for countless cookbooks, by food and drink brands, chefs and food writers, but also a shoot with a Geisha, many dinner parties, supper clubs and there may even have been a male stripper for a hen do (we only found out about that afterwards). Thank you @bexseal for taking the portraits. I think she’s done a great job, maybe a photographer in the making?! Click save for the next time you need an experienced food photographer.
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11 days ago
Swipe right ➡️ for focaccia bubbles, before, during and BTS of me setting the shot. . Rosemary Focaccia with Lacey Ostermann at Kemble House Photography Studio . Food photography for Lacey’s cookbook 3 Doughs 60 Recipes . @_lacebakes_ Publisher @hardiegrantuk Designed by @nicandlou Editor @issygp Food styling @fooodstylist Prop styling @jenkayprops Studio @kemblehouse . #newcookbook #foodphotographyandstyling #cookbookphotography #3doughs60recipes
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3 months ago
‘What chefs bring to Christmas’ in today’s Guardian Magazine. An epic day in the studio shooting recipes, delicious drinks and food, recommended by top chefs from around the UK. . Pic editor @huntforcaroline and Kate Edwards Words @bexseal Food Photography by me Food Styling @happymulligan Food Styling Assistant @alice_cooks_and_eats Props and set styling @victwyman Assisted by @jakehalbarker Studio @kemblehouse . #foodphotographyandstyling #londonfoodphotographer
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4 months ago
Back from the repair shop! ✨Swipe for before pics. Our two Danish folding chairs. It helps to have a furniture restorer for a Dad. Thank you! @tatortreasure . #londonphotographystudio #foodphotographystudio #warehousestudio
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5 months ago
Epic day! @kemblehouse ❤️ 🩷 Thank you team 🙏🏻@happymulligan @victwyman @jakehalbarker and @alice_cooks_and_eats
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5 months ago
🥁 FREE PROPS! Introducing Kemble House’s vast collection of beautiful bowls, fabulous forks, perfect plates and really, really nice knives. Every shoot gets free use of all our props and backgrounds, plus the cambo stand, a free parking space and unlimited tea, proper coffee and chocolate-based snacks. We are biased but as a food photographer and a cookbook author, we like to think Kemble House has everything you might need for a #cookbookshoot. #foodphotographystudio #cookbookphotography #londonfoodstudio #londonphotoshoot #londonphotographystudio #foodphotography #cookbookprops #foodstyling #propstyling #flatlayphotography #foodvideography
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6 months ago
Rinku making Shingara (Bengali Samosas) at the studio this week. My daughter Isla ate two for dinner, only leaving me with one 😢 . @rinku.dutt1 @kemblehouse
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6 months ago
Yotam Ottolenghi’s recipes in Saturday’s Guardian. . Recipes @ottolenghi Food photography 👋🏻 Food Styling @happymulligan Prop Styling @maxwhrobinson Studio @kemblehouse
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6 months ago
Kemble House has had a website glow up! ✨ . Loads more information is now online about our daylight or blackout food photography studio and events space in Forest Hill, London. . Get in touch to organise your next shoot! 🙏🏻
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10 months ago
Loving my new label system 🥸 Maybe future website and folio edits won’t take so long now?! . #foodphotographyandstyling #cookbookphotography #restaurantphotography #foodphotographer
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10 months ago
🔥Behind the scenes of our London food styling and videography workshop!🔥 I’ve said it before, but I’ll say it again: There is nothing like the collective creative energy that helps push us to new creative heights in our work💪🏽! On that note, I’m taking you behind the scenes of the food content creation, food photography, styling and videography workshop I taught together with the fabulous @silvia_bifaro last month where all the attendees just excelled in a way I KNOW they never thought possible!✨✨✨ It’s always nerve-racking to step into a space you don’t know, surrounded by other creatives you haven’t met before to explore an art form you’re trying to master. 😅 But that’s exactly what our workshop attendees did and I was blown away by what they achieved in such a short space of time. 💪🏽 Here can you find a few tiny outtakes from what we were up to when we met at the gorgeous @kemblehouse to play with cake, mocktails, salads and our cameras too of course. Hope you enjoy this little outtake!🥰 . . . Thank you to our amazing students for trusting us to guide you @neephoto @rootandshine_ @lizzibakingbird @annenasphotography @c.a.r.o_graphie_food @saonasdelights @neeunaistudio . Thanks too to our fantastic collaborators who made the workshop and the goody bags extra special: @cblbackdrops @dantesceramics @tulacodelife @stickyblenders.co.uk 🙏🏽 👉🏽Want to see more shots and read more thoughts on the topic of videography? Then head over to the blog. Link in bio.😘 #wherewomencreate#londonfoodstylist #foodphotographer #visualstorytelling #veganbaking #learnfoodphotography #foodphotographyandstyling #bts #settinguptheshot#londonfoodphotographer #foodcontentcreator #learnvideography
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1 year ago
Approaching the long Easter weekend with Lacey Osterman’s Jammy eggs on toast with scallion cream cheese and chilli crisp oil - from her book ‘3 Doughs 60 Recipes’ . 🥚🐣🥚🐣 . @_lacebakes_ Photographer @stevenjoycephoto Publisher @hardiegrantuk Designed by @nicandlou Editor @issygp Food styling @fooodstylist Prop styling @jenkayprops Studio @kemblehouse . #newcookbook #foodphotographyandstyling #cookbookphotography #3doughs60recipes #londonfoodstudio #foodphotographystudio
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1 year ago