Creative Director, Photographer, and Food Stylist, Hein van Tonder is a native South African with a combination of local, continental and global creative experience, currently working his between South Africa and United Arab Emirates, creating imagery and content for a wide range of clients.
He was awarded Highly Commended in the global Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year competition in 2022, 2020 and 2019 having won the Food Bloggers category in 2017. This was the 8th time van Tonder has been a finalist in this world-respected food photography competition, being shortlisted each year since 2015. In December 2019 he won Food Photographer of the Year in the Admired in Africa awards.
His work includes commercial and editorial photography and videography, recipe development, creative direction, cooking in the kitchen and global tasting of all things food, lifestyle and interiors, always contributing to and featuring his work across popular magazines, cookbooks, blogs, websites and social media accounts for clients across the globe.
His popular blog and Instagram account Heinstirred feature inspiring, easy to make at home recipes and delicious food photography images.
In 2020 during lockdown, Hein created a custom range of photography background boards that is now used by South Africa’s top stylists and photographers and seen in campaigns and images not just locally but internationally too.
Image licensing & distribution by Stockfood Image Professionals
Click thumbnails to view galleries :
Clients:
- Nespresso (Middle East & Africa)
- Lavazza (MENA)
- Pink Lady® Apples
- Blue Ribbon Squares & Bread (Premier Foods)
- Aldi (Germany)
- Quaker Oats (UK)
- One and Only Cape Town
- Lindt
- La Motte Wine Estate
- Rust en Vrede Wine Estate
- Food and Home Entertaining
- Burda Media (Germany)
- House and Leisure Magazine
- Uber Eats
- Spinneys (UAE)
- Santa Maria AB (Sweden)
- Lanzerac Wine Estate
- Kunjani Wines
- AMC Cookware
- Stork Bake
- Majeka House
- La Petit Ferme
- Cara Saven Wall Design
- Sunday Times Food Weekly
- Taste Magazine
- Robertson’s Spices
- Tintswalo Atlantic
- Elle Decoration
- NB Publishers
- Nobu Cape Town
- Vondeling Wine Estate
- The Kove Collection
- The Grand Cafe
- Manley Communications
- Spill Communications
- Checkers
Featured:
- Huffington Post USA, Canada and UK
- Condé Nast Traveller Magazine
- Delicious Australia
- Harpers Bazaar Japan
- Elle Decor
- House & Leisure
- food52.com
- food24.com
- Buzzfeed
- The Kitchn
- brit.co
- feedfeed.info
Awards:
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Winner Food Photographer of the Year 2019 – Admired in Africa Awards
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Winner Pink Lady® Food Photographer of the Year 2017 – Food Blogger Category
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Finalist Pink Lady®Food Photographer of the Year (various categories) 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020
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Short List Pink Lady®Food Photographer of the Year (various categories) 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
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Category Runner Up 2016 Njord Sustainable Food Photo Competition
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Finalist and Runner Up, Food & Wine Category, African Blogger Awards 2015
Photography & Lightroom training for individuals and groups. Contact me for forthcoming courses, or to schedule tailored training sessions.
Equipment:
Nikon D850 and Nikon D750, Various Nikkor lenses, Profoto D2 Mono Lights
Purchasing and Usage:
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The majority of photographs and recipes are for sale at StockFood.
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This blog and its content is the property of Hein van Tonder of heinstirred.com and may not be reproduced in any form whatsoever without prior permission from the owner or subject to sale via StockFood.
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Contact Details :
+27 (0) 836622101 (South Africa) or
+971 (0) 585904708 (United Arab Emirates)
EMAIL hein@heinstirred.com
INSTAGRAM @heinstirred
