📣 It’s always extra special when a personal project is recognised, so I’m chuffed to share When Food Was Fun, published in @ripostemagazine’s Digital Food Edition, is The Society of Publication Designers @spdesigners’ Digital Merit Winner in their Original Digital Photography - Feature: Lifestyle / Travel / Food / Shelter [Digital Platform] category. #SPD58 “SPD powers the future of visual storytelling, setting the standard for editorial excellence.” 🏆🎉 Back When Food Was Fun - Remembering the simple pleasure and innocence of childhood food & drinks. Concepts & Creative Direction @louisehagger @itslucyruth Photography @louisehagger Drinks Styling @itslucyruth Prop Styling & Set @alexanderbreeze Photo assistant & retouching by @sam.peter.reeves Food styling assistant @_hattiebakes_ Thanks @daniellepender @ripostemagazine for publishing our personal work and connecting with the images to write an accompanying essay 🫶🏼 “If you grew up in the UK during the 80s and 90s there are certain food-related touchpoints that will be ingrained in your memory forever. …It was a time of convenience, of micro-wave meals, of blissful ignorance – when our taste buds and appetites were driven by what was fun, bright, sweet or mouth-wateringly sour rather than what was “good for us”. I can still remember the joy of spending a morning in the six-weeks holiday eating bowl after bowl of Frosties whilst watching a full five hours of kids' programmes on TV. These cereal sessions would be followed by a carefree afternoon in the park with friends throwing sticks at the climbing frame sustained entirely by cans of ice-cold Lilt, packets of Hula-Hoops, eaten off the ends off the tips of our fingers, and 20p mix-ups” Full essay on the Riposte website https://www.ripostemagazine.com/when-food-was-fun . . . #louisehagger #foodphotography @wyatt_clarke_jones @patbates_associates #patbatesandassociates @assocphoto @f22aop @equallens @she.takes.over #womeninphotography #stilllifephotography #instafoods #thefeedfeed #shetakesover @thefeedfeed #instagood #instadaily #90s #foodstagram @hulahoops_uk #hulahoops #youthclub #childhoodmemories #tbt #nostalgia #favourite #awardwinning (at USA) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cqu7txkoIhw/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=