Dean Cambray

Dean is an internationally awarded and recognized Food + Lifestyle Photographer who is now based in the USA.

Previous to this, Dean spent 12 years living in Melbourne from where he worked and also travelled internationally to shoot for various high-profile clients in the food, restaurant, publishing and advertising industries.

Dean is also an accomplished Food Stylist and Recipe Developer.

Previous to becoming a photographer, Dean worked for 17 years as a chef in Michelin starred restaurants in London and France, before finishing his career in Australia with his own award winning restaurant Cambray’s.

During his time in Australia Dean also self-published eleven books for whom he styled and photographed.

These areas of expertise; combined with a meticulous eye for detail allow Dean to produce stunning food and lifestyle images and motion content from a well-rounded and creative perspective.

In his spare time Dean writes, photographs and records for his new post cast and blog A Taste of What Your About due out in July.

Clients (partial list)

Curtis Stone, Basics Market, American Express, Blossom Brothers, Mondelez International, Nestle, Koko Black, La Tina, Coles Group & Myer, Big Boy BBQ, Bertocchi Smallgoods, Barkly Smokehouse, Palazzo Versace,Turi Foods, Penguin/Random House, Hardie Grant, New Holland, Melbourne University Press, BBC Good Food, Schmucks Bagels, Ora King Salmon, Pit Barrel BBQ, House & Garden, Simon and Schuster.

Awards

2020 Temples of BBQ honored by the World Gourmand Cookbook Award foundation as being one of the top seven BBQ cookbooks in the world for the past 25 years.

2018 BURNT - How a fire saved my Life

  • Winner Best Short Short AOF Action on Film International Festival 2018 Las Vegas

  • Winner Best Short Short Hollywood Dream International Film Festival 2018 Las Vegas

  • Nominated Best Short documentary AOF Action on Film International Festival 2018 Las Vegas 2018

  • Winner Best International Short Short at New York's Cutting Room International Short Film Festival 2018

2016 Temples of BBQ won the Gourmand World Cookbook Award for Best BBQ cookbook in the World in 2016.