In the Mood for Love

Food Photography - Series

2026

Sylvie Li, Montreal, QC
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Photographer: Sylvie Li Photography Producer: Shoot Studio Digital Artist: Pétronille Gontaud-Leclair Production Artist: Evelyne Morin Food Stylist: Raphaëlle Dubé Stylist: Catherine Perron Makeup artist: Alexandra Gavrilescu Model: Ellfie Chen Photo Assistant: Sébastien Miron

This series is inspired by the film In the Mood for Love, in which food becomes the common thread of a relationship shaped by repressed desire and unspoken feelings. The photographer stages a bond that takes form around the table. Food symbolizes both solitude and desire, moments of closeness and the emotional barriers the characters maintain. Echoing Wong Kar-wai's world, each image unfolds in a red-and-gold palette, where soft, muted light sculpts intimacy.