The Creative Process is a Messy Business

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We looked at each other in confusion. We pushed and prodded at packets of herbs and spices. There we stood, unproductive, with nothing to show for the time we were giving to photographing this food.

It didn’t feel like work. Standing and talking whilst playing with the herbs and spices, standing jars up, laying them down, scattering chillis across the surface, dropping spoonfuls of cinnamon in…