Bimbadgen Estate — Photography Across Food, Wine and People

My work with Bimbadgen Estate began at Esca, the winery’s restaurant, where I was commissioned to create a collection of stills capturing the food, dining experience and character of the restaurant.

That initial shoot led to a second brief from the Bimbadgen team, this time centred on a significant achievement for the winery.

Bimbadgen Wine makers

Four of Bimbadgen’s Single Vineyard wines had each received scores in the 90s in the Halliday Wine Companion — an impressive result for the range and an opportunity to create a body of imagery that celebrated both the wines and the people behind them.

Rather than simply photographing the bottles, we wanted the work to have personality.

The shoot centred around Bimbadgen’s winemakers and wider team, creating a series of strong environmental portraits throughout the winery. We worked across both interior and exterior locations, using the architecture, cellar, vineyard and surrounding landscape to give each portrait a clear sense of place.

The aim was to create images that felt polished enough for advertising and editorial use while still retaining something natural and human. The success belonged to the wines, but it also belonged to the people who had grown, made and shaped them.

Alongside the portraits, I photographed the four award-winning wines individually and in detail, building a broader library of product imagery that could sit alongside the people and location photography.

The final collection gave Bimbadgen a flexible bank of assets covering portraiture, wine, hospitality and place, with imagery designed to work across editorial coverage, advertising, website content and social media.

It’s the kind of project I particularly enjoy: creating more than a set of individual photographs and instead building a visual library around a business — its product, its people and the environment that connects them.