I love food. I think that fact has been firmly established. But what I really love is when good food is served in the right atmosphere. When they’re in synch. Like at Fritz Pastry in Chicago. Now, there are probably hundreds of bakeries in the city. And I’m sure that many of them are good. [...]

My philosophy towards shooting food is multi-faceted. As a food lover and amateur chef, I first and foremost want to make the food look delicious. By that, I mean that I want anyone viewing the picture to get a visceral feeling of how that food will taste.  I want their mouths to water.  This was [...]

I recently shot some stills of Entertaining Company‘s “On the Red Carpet” event for the Center on Halsted. While preparing for the event, Wendy Pashman, the founder of Entertaining Company, and her team were also being filmed by FollowSpot Media — our new full service video company here in Chicago, for a series of three videos chronicling [...]

I love pizza. It has two of my favorite food groups: bread and cheese. Throw in a little tomato sauce for cancer prevention and there you have it: Perfection. So my goal when shooting Chef John McClean’s Sono Wood Fired Pizza was to not just make you think “Oh, I like pizza.” I wanted to [...]

When my friend Leslie Thomas called to ask me if I would take the pictures for her new Workshop/CoOp website, I said “yes”. Then, she called to tell me that the bags were going to be in the March issue of “O” Magazine. I said “fantastic”. Then she called to tell me that the magazine [...]