Street vendors, produce markets and even portraiture – food photography is being granted a stage beyond the plate.

Great food photography is being celebrated beyond the plate. The Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year Awards, now in its second year, is inviting a photographers the globe over to enter their interpretations in a plethora of categories – Cream of the Crop, Food in the Street, Food in the Field, Food and its Place, Food for Sale, Food for Celebration, Food Sn-Apping, Food off the Press, Food in Action, Food Portraiture, Young (Under 18s), An Apple a Day, The Philip Harben Award for Food in Action and Errazuriz Wine Photographer of the Year.

Take a look at last year’s winners and be inspired – entries close on 31 January.