Searching for Image Keywords

If you’re limiting your searches to keywords, it may suffice. If you want to go beyond that, e.g., with deeper metadata, you should be looking at a bespoke DAM application.

Here is a keyword search locating an image exported via Photos.app…

These keywords are in the IPTC data for the image…

…and converted to kMDItemKeywords…

kMDItemKeywords  = (
    omelette,
    food
)