Sam Kaplan is a photographer based in New York. His crisp, clean photographs feature food, drinks, beauty products and other still-life objects on monochromatic backgrounds with stark, lighting.

A recent project of Kaplan’s saw the artist creating expansive landscapes out of food products. I love his pyramid of packaged cookies, and in another photograph, a deep pit of snack cakes. It’s quite interesting, the way that Kaplan is able to create such a sense of depth using relatively small building blocks. I wonder how long it took to put these assemblages together – and if they got eaten after the photos were taken!

Kaplan’s other photographs have a tendency to make the subject matter look monolithic and highly stylized. Unlike other creators of this kind of striking, polished photography, he rarely photographs human subjects. Kaplan's still-life photographs capture everyday items including electronics, sports equipment, pharmaceuticals and tools, arranging them elegantly as patterns, and in deconstructed arrangements of parts.