Food Photography Workshop – Sept 13-14

Intensive: Cooking with Chef Kim and Food Photography

I’m thrilled to be teaching my first photography workshop with the famous Santa Fe Photography Workshops this fall. September 13-14 I will be co-teaching a hybrid food photography and cooking workshop called “Cooking With Kim”.

Information on how to register is here on the Santa Fe Photography Workshops

I’ve been photographing food, from farm to table for magazines and books for the past 6 years, but I’ve been blown away by the cultural phenomenon of food photography by people who love to eat, travel, and document the whole experience.

It was Instagram that really opened my eyes to our global love for—if not obsession with—photographing our food. I follow Instagrammers from over 20 countries, and no matter which continent, which culture, which language, the universal subject is our food—the food we cook at home, the ingredients, the preparation, the plating, the tell-tale crumbs on the table cloth at the end of great meal.

The images, however, often suffer from awkward composition, poor lighting, inattention to detail. There are a number of easy techniques which can help improve the food images we love so much to share.

My chef partner for the intensive class is a character truly beloved by all, the queen of the kitchen at Santa Fe Photographic Workshops, known simply as Chef Kim. Whereas photographers and visual enthusiasts around the globe are familiar with the photography workshops at Santa Fe, only those who have participated on the Santa Fe Campus know of one of the workshop’s best kept treasures: the daily meals provided by Chef Kim and her staff. With a focus on healthy nutritional balance, sensitivity to increasingly prevalent dietary restraints, and a playful sense of fun, color and flavor, Kim provides the sustenance that fuels the workshop experience.

As my friend Baron Wolman says, “Shoot what you eat, and eat what you shoot!”