Joan Cantó

For all you… the pirate chef and the headless chicken.

Song: Monkey Island (Michael Land) Played by Press play on tape.

Here are some photos of a project I’m working in just now. These are some images of the great Restaurant Benet in Les Borges Blanques (Catalonia).

In the heart of the greatest olive oil of the world (made of arbequina olives), the young chef Francesc Xavier Benet makes a modern and exquisite cuisine very vinculated to his terrain and costumes. This is the second year that the Michelin guide recommends his restaurant.

We took a photo of a nice dessert made with wine in all the elements: biscuit-bread, jelly and sorbet.

Cantó doing a first communion photo session? Is this possible? Is he mad?

Well. It’s true. I have made a first communion session today and these are the first images. What can I do if one of my favourite models asks me to photograph his first communion??? I explained to his family that I don’t make that kind of works but I was happy to do it this time.

I don’t know how photographers make the communions now, but I tried to do the photos that I never had when I was 9 years old.

I hope you forgive me the licence.

More photos of the same serie.

For me, this is a good example of a productive session for stock.

Tomorrow I will show the last four images of the serie.

Today, I have done a casting of chefs to do the catering for me and my assistants. We’re so lazy for cook!!

This is an eight years talent called Pepo Queró and this was his first time in front of a photographer’s camera.

What do you thing? We must contract him or not?