Green Plums Trapped in Plastic: Photographer Caitlin Isola’s Favourite Shot

This photograph has no special story. It’s plums in a bag, a little bit of the end of summer preserved as a reminder of what’s around the corner when it’s coldest. But I remember seeing them in the bag, wondering how the flash might bounce off the folds in the plastic so I snapped it a few different ways to play with it in the light room later. There’s something really interesting about how the curly reflections play with the little bubbles, giving them multiple dimensions and highlighting the greenness and the veiny-ness of the plums. If you stare at it for a while, new details seem to reveal themselves and it becomes almost abstract. 

I’ve always really enjoyed documenting the texture of food: I’d love to do a series photographed on large format and print them on really huge canvasses so one could stare at them for hours and get lost in the void of, say, the concentric circles in a beetroot (or just the funny little bubbles in a bag of green plums!)

Caitlin Isola is a freelance photographer living in London shooting food and drink for both editorial and commercial clients. In her free time she enjoys cooking, reading, gardening and raving.