Being a food photographer, and a food lover, Thanksgiving is my kind of holiday. I love the turkey. I love the fixings that go with the turkey (all made with the help of the fabulous Garden Gourmet products). Like this stuffing. And this one with cranberries and apples. And this medley of winter vegetables….. But what [...]
I pride myself on taking beautiful pictures of food. As anyone who reads this blog knows, I love food. And I love cooking. And I think that passion comes through in my work. Now, it helps if the food I’m photographing has been prepared by some famous chef like Paul Virant or Stephanie Izard or [...]
A while back, I was hired by PolyScience to photograph their Sous Vide machine, which was reformulated for the home chef. For those of you who are not food geeks such as myself, Sous Vide is a method of cooking in which food is vacuum sealed in plastic bags, and immersed in water. It’s often [...]
Last year, I was lucky enough to accompany my friend Leslie Thomas to Guatemala to meet the women of Trama Textiles. They’re the cooperative who weave the fabric that the WORKSHOP/CoOp bags are made, and with which I’m obsessed, as you know.These women blew me away. When Guatemala’s civil war wreaked havoc on their community, killing most of the men, these [...]
Even though I’ve recently decided to focus my business on food photography and portraits, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to photograph Wendy Pashman and Entertaining Company‘s new party space: AD 1917. Not only is Wendy someone that I really admire, but she’s truly an entrepreneur – always “ahead of the curve”. Which is why [...]
Having worked as a professional photographer here in Chicago for a number of years now, I have shot all kinds of things: faces, food, places. But recently, I’ve decided to focus my business on two areas: food, and portraits. Now, food can be tough, especially to light, but it’s fairly inanimate. Portraits, on the other [...]
Recently, I had the honor of shooting Entertaining Company‘s event for The Art Institute of Chicago’s Society for Contemporary Art (SCA). For the party, Wendy Pashman and her team at Entertaining Company created a series of really beautiful, seriously delicious cocktails using Tequila Avión to go with their equally amazing food. All of which I photographed. [...]
I love WORKSHOP/CoOp. The product, the message, the philosophy — they’re all fantastic so I’m always happy to volunteer my services. This time, friend and WORKSHOP/CoOp founder Leslie Thomas needed some alternate tassel shots since if you love your bag enough, as I do, the tassel will eventually fall off. And some summer colors shots. [...]
I consider myself fortunate to count Chris and Sheila Kennedy among my friends here in Chicago. Smart, interesting and fun, this is a couple who knows how to give back. When Chis stepped down as the head of the Merchandise Mart, he and Sheila decided to start Top Box Foods, a non-profit hunger relief organization, because [...]
I wanted to give a shout out to the amazingly talented Hilary Schwartz of Estera Events. Hilary was responsible for the design and styling of all the food stations for the Entertaining Company wedding shoot that I photographed a couple of weeks ago. What does that mean, exactly? Well, as you can see in the [...]
I have had the amazing good fortune to work with Entertaining Company twice this month. First at The Art Institute’s Society for Contemporary Art event earlier in the month, and then last week, at a photo shoot of a wedding to be held at the Cultural Center in Chicago. As always, the food was amazing, [...]