Trends and image requests from our clients
Dear photographer, here you’ll find some inspiration for food themes (listed in order of seasonal importance) to help you create photo series with strong commercial potential.
June 15, 2026
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CURRENT URGENT REQUIREMENTS (March 2026)
- Easter recipes
- Lamb
- Early-season vegetables cooked with fresh cheeses
- Easy-to-take-away recipes for sharing (what do you bring when you’re invited? : terrines, cakes, tarts, etc.)
- Air Fryer recipes
- Oils in cooking (walnut, sunflower, grapeseed, rapeseed, olive, sesame, etc.)
- Cooking with herbs and edible flowers
- Homemade salad dressings and sauces
- Barbecue
- Sweet-and-sour spring salads
- Strawberries
- Pastries
- Asian noodles
- Cooked fruit (in syrup, baked, compote, etc.)
- Filling, low-cost recipes (starchy foods, pulses)
- Savoury bites to nibble on (brick pastries, samosas, mini puff pastries, empanadas, spring rolls, etc.)
- The marbled trend (cakes, crêpes, sponge cakes, etc.)
- Family-sized puff pastries (koulibiacs, tarts) and individual puff pastries (mini tarts, douillons, bouchées à la reine, hot pâtés)
- Roasts and rolled meats
- Afternoon tea pastries (madeleines, jam-filled biscuits, cannelés, shortbread)
- Dishes served in their cooking vessels (gratin dish, roasting tin, terrine, baking tray, frying pan, etc.)
- Homemade aperitif dips (hummus, aubergine caviar, rillettes, etc.) + polenta fries, blinis, focaccia slices
- Fruit carpaccios and tartares
- Stuffed vegetables and fruit
- Sweet and savoury crumbles
- Super-quick family meals (ready in under 20 minutes)
- Recipes with few ingredients (5 max)
- Comfort food and nostalgic dishes
- Generous desserts to share
- Bistronomic Japanese cuisine (Izakaya)
- Homemade ‘fast-food’ meat dishes (kebab, shawarma, crispy chicken)
- Thoughtful recipes (seasonal, budget-friendly, vegetarian)
- Eggs in all their forms (omelettes, baked eggs, tortillas, galettes, frittatas)
- Regional pastries (Tarte Tropézienne, Basque cake, prune far, cannelés, croustade, kouign amann, kouglof...)
- Animal protein as an accompaniment to the main course (starchy foods or vegetables served with: chorizo slices, strips of cured ham, bacon lardons, minced meat, squid or cuttlefish rings)
- Oven-baked dishes to share (cooked in a single dish: gratin, moussaka, tian, lasagne)
- Oven-baked desserts to share (cooked in a single dish: clafoutis, fruit gratin, far, rice cake, crumble)
- Chicken cuts (recipes featuring a single cut: wing, drumstick, thigh, breast)
- Classic tarts, thin-crust tarts and homemade pizzas
- Sweet and savoury recipes (fresh or dried fruit)
- Vegetarian stuffed vegetables
- Desserts made from a single mixture, poured into moulds and served in individual portions (small custards, small mousses, panna cotta, fruit soup)
OTHER CURRENT NEEDS
- Desserts with homemade hazelnut, pistachio or cocoa spreads (crêpes, moist cakes, small cakes, etc.)
- Orange-coloured produce (carrot, sweet potato, squash, apricot, melon, mango, clementine, orange, etc.)
- Parmentiers
- Rolled or spiral-shaped presentations (cannelloni, wraps, Yule log, crêpes, sponge cake, vegetable strips)
- Generously topped breakfast toast (avocado toast, country-style croque-monsieur, warm baguette)
- Wholesome salads
- Traditional home-style recipes
- Mountain cuisine
- Homemade pizzas
- Gluten-free
- Low GI recipes
- Polenta
- Strudels
- Honey recipes
- Sausages and mashed potatoes
- Roasts
- Twisted stews
- Mocktails
- Alcohol-free food and drink pairings
- Eggs in jelly/Aspics
- Health-conscious cooking
- Gourmet coffees, teas and hot chocolates
- Raw or uncooked dishes
- Cooking with seeds and grains
- Ancient grains (fonio, kerza, tamarind, sorghum, einkorn wheat, freekeh)
- Recipes with dried and candied fruit
- Pulses
- Pistachios and ‘Dubai’ recipes
- Detox broths
- Starchy desserts (rice pudding, semolina cake, tapioca with coconut milk, etc.)
- Foods for the gut microbiota
- Fermented foods
- Flame-grilled dishes
- Tavern recipes
- “Bouillons” bistro cuisine
- Fusion bistronomy
- Sustainable ‘glocal’ food (local agriculture)
- ‘Grazing’ tables (an abundance of food arranged harmoniously)
- Anti-inflation menu
- Preventative nutrition
- Boosting recipes and superfoods
- Plant-based protein alternatives
- Food and drink pairings
- Cooking with wild ingredients (pine needles, fir, mimosa, seaweed, mushrooms, plants)
- Balanced, low-cost recipes
- Plant-based dishes
- Traditional French recipes
- Spectacular cakes
- Recipes with dried fruit
- Homemade plant-based burgers
- Pad Thai and bobuns
- Recipes from the vegetable garden
- Waffles (savoury, sweet, lollipop-style...)
- Savoury pastries
- Croque-monsieur (mini, in different shapes, giant...)
- Fried snacks for drinks (acras, fritters, tempura, etc.)
- Recipes for children
- Recipes for babies
- Tinned fish (tuna, mackerel, sardines)
- Seaweed dishes
- Praline
ESSENTIALS (ONGOING NEEDS)
- Chocolate
- Potatoes
- Tarts
- Pasta
- Soups
- Gratins
- Cakes
- Rice
- Pancakes
- Stews
- Spring
- Summer
- Autumn
- Winter
- Christmas
- Vegetarian recipes
- Cooking with a food processor
- Easy recipes
- Budget-friendly recipes
- Recipes with few ingredients (3 or 4 items max)
- Quick recipes (30 mins)
- Traditional home-style cooking
- Air Fryer
TRENDS MISSING SINCE 2024
- Buckwheat
- Chilli-Spiced Cooking
- Hand rolls
- Chicken waffles
- Pies
- Hash browns
- Giant Italian ravioli
- Khinkali (Georgian dumplings)
- Tteokbokki (spicy Korean rice cakes)
- Sweet rice (rice pudding, rice cake, etc.)
- Recipes with nuts
- Cod liver
- Scarpaccia (Tuscan flatbread)
- English-style afternoon tea
- Homemade drinks made with wild flowers and plants
- Croffles
- Moringa
- Spicy sauces
- Hard seltzer
- Moon milk
- Fast good
- Aperitif in a jar
- Sweet platters
- Cheesecake and flans with a caramelised top
- Decorated breads and focaccias
- Carob
- New oils
- Rotisserie
- Korean cuisine
- Baos
- Calzones
- Tacos
- Pita sandwiches
- ‘Climate-friendly’ dishes (environmentally friendly and seasonal)
- Babkas
- Hemp/CBD
- Vegetable steaks
- Seaweed
- Reduced-sugar or sugar-free (replaced with cereal malt, grape juice, date syrup, etc.)
- Low-alcohol cocktails
- Fermented foods
- Ramen
- Fresh pasta
- Chickpeas and pulses
- Coffee
- Spices (chilli, pepper, ginger)
- Shredded meat
- Kombucha
- Superfoods
- Sweet platters
- Appetisers in jars
- Decorated/coloured breads
- Plant-based kits
- New oils (pumpkin, linseed, hemp, etc.)
- French-Asian fusion cuisine
- Kebabs
- Dishes featuring fresh fruit (sweet and savoury)
- Poke bowls
- Savoury biscuits
- New York roll
SPECIFIC MISSING ITEMS
- Yacon (product and recipe)
- Jerusalem artichoke (product and recipe)
- Chervis (product and recipe)
- Tuber parsley (product and recipe)
- Peruvian oca (product and recipe)
- Plant-based cheeses
- Ayran
- Potato milk
- Ngalakh (Senegalese dessert)
- Pig in its natural habitat
- Potato field
CLASSIC MISSES
- Rotisserie
- Basket of oysters
- Seafood platter
- Cheese platter
- Charcuterie platter
- Cheese and charcuterie platters
- Figure flipping crêpes
- Cut-out elements on a white background: bacon bits, bacon, gizzards, duck breast (whole and sliced), feta, gelatine, sausage meat, vanilla sugar, a piece of Gruyère, sun-dried and/or candied tomatoes