Photo-real renders by Apparent Reality

Italian studio Apparent Reality applies 3D technology to interiors, creating images with an extraordinarily photo-realistic value.

The Stack Series by Clemens Kois

Artist Clemens Kois sees potential in the every day, as portrayed through his still life Stack Series. He collects familiar objects found around his home, and uses them as part of unplanned vertical structures.

Festive Collection by Pierre Hermé

This year's Festive Season Collection by French patissier Pierre Hermé includes chocolate ganache, candied chestnut, foie gras, passion fruit ganache macarons and ginger and orange marmalade pound cake.

DuluxLab ice cream shoot by Emily Blunden

Interiors stylist Emily Blunden worked with paint brand Dulux and photographer Simon Bevan to create this mouthwatering photo series, which presents Dulux's Timeless Classics and Collective Passions colour schemes in the form of ice cream cones, milkshakes, popsicles, ice cream sandwiches and coolers.

Delicious photographs by Normann Copenhagen

Apple Trifle by Normann Copenhagen

Danish design brand Normann Copenhagen has launched a recipe series called Normann Food. The walls of the brand's Copenhagen flagship store have been covered with colourful 3D prints that illustrate twelve summer recipes.

Cut-and-paste foods: Festina Lente for Etenschap

Dutch design collective Festina Lente created these styled combinations of fruit, vegetables and animals to make a new visual identity for catering experience designers Etenschap.

MRI Vegetables

Heirloom tomato © Inside Insides

MRI technologist Andy Ellison, of Boston University Medical School, has posted a series of MRI scans of common fruit and vegetables on his website, Inside Insides.

Brian Ferry: still life style

Brooklyn-based photographer Brian Ferry's new still life series Ennui explores the qualities of food that make it such an appealing prop.

French Cuisse: food still lifes

Innovative food blog French Cuisse is the work of William Valle, a nineteen year old student from Quebec who is currently studying restaurant management. His images portray various dishes in clean still life compositions, with a methodical feel.

Christopher Stott: still life style

Vintage Electric Fan & Water (2009)

Artist Christopher Stott paints realist compositions of everyday objects, specialising in vintage classics such as typewriters, telephones, alarm clocks and fans.

Disassembled Household Appliances by Brittny Badger

Iron from Disassembled Household Appliances by Brittny Badger

Connecticut-based photographer Brittny Badger deconstructed a series of used domestic tools for her photographic series, Disassembled Household Appliances. Exposing the unexpected beauty of each product's inner life, the project follows the passionately open-source ethos of our Hack-tivate macro trend.

Justin Fantl: still life style

Justin Fantl

In this series of still lifes, US photographer Justin Fantl has turned his lens on exquisite patisserie and technicolour fruit, and even found beauty in the fast food industry.

Pantone Tarts by Emilie Griottes

Choose Your Color is a series of nine still life photos created by French food blogger Emilie Griottes for the French culinary magazine Fricote. Each photograph displays a different flavour of tart in the shape of a Pantone colour swatch.

Ines Nepomuceno: Still life style

Usually, culinary still lifes are stylised to perfection to appear as desirable as possible. Photographer Ines Nepomuceno's tablescapes, however, focus on capturing the often chaotic post-meal setting.

Retro Poland by Lukasz Wierzbowski

Self-taught photographer Lukasz Wierzbowski is obsessed with interiors, props and surroundings. In these photographs, retro apartments in his native Poland provide a backdrop full of colour, bold fabrics and history. The inclusion of nonchalant models give the images a subtle fashion connection, turning a still life in to a story.

Alexander Kent: spotlight on design

© Alexander Kent

London-based photographer Alexander Kent uses spotlights of colour and touches of surreal detail to give everyday items a hidden life and a new appeal.

Still life style by Holly Farrell

Chair by Holly Farrell

Toronto-based artist Holly Farrell creates painted still lifes which elevate seemingly mundane subjects into meditations on the objects we use every day. We speak to Farrell about her career to date, inspirations, and choice of subject matter.

HBL Exhibitions: Still Living at Sarah Myerscough Fine Art

Detail from Nature Morte - Carrots by Katherine Melancon; archival pigment print on Hahnemuhle Photo rag 29 7 x 29 7 cm. Image courtesy of Sarah Myerscough Fine Art.

Mayfair gallery Sarah Myerscough Fine Art is to curate an exhibition of contemporary Still Life this November. The show, called Still Living, will present works from contemporary painters and photographers whose practice relates to the genre - and in some cases deconstructs it.

Photo Opportunities by Corinne Vionnet

Tiananmen Square, Biejing, from Photo Opportunities by Corinne Vionnet

Corinne Vionnet creates these haunting photographs by layering hundreds of tourist photographs on top of each other. The Swiss photographer trawls social media sites collecting everybody's different impressions of iconic buildings and locations, and combines them in a way that she hopes will "conjure up questions about representation and memory of places".