
NARRATIVE
FOOD AND TRAVEL PHOTOGRAPHY
Rizzoli | Ten Speed Press | Chronicle | Broadway
Clarkson Potter | Simon and Schuster
5280 Magazine | Saveur | Food & Wine
Epicurean Group | The Kitchen restaurants
NARRATIVE
FOOD AND TRAVEL PHOTOGRAPHY
Rizzoli | Ten Speed Press | Chronicle | Broadway
Clarkson Potter | Simon and Schuster
5280 Magazine | Saveur | Food & Wine
Epicurean Group | The Kitchen restaurants
Photographic pursuit: to photograph the cultural environment of people as they work, farm, cook, eat, celebrate, gather and live
Cameras: Leica M240 digital and iPhone 6 Plus
Style: editorial/reportage/natural light/nothing artificial
Photographic breakthrough: landing my first magazine cover photo on the “Seven Moles of Oaxaca” for the premier issue of Saveur magazine
First cookbook assignment: The Food and Life of Oaxaca by Zarela Martinez | MacMillan Publishing
Dream assignment: to photograph old world markets around the globe followed by an invitation from a local vendor to visit his/her kitchen and document the making of a favorite recipe
Photography for published cookbooks: 35
Most interesting magazine assignment: photographing in the kitchens of a Hindu family, a Muslim family and a Christian family during the Rice Harvest Festival in Kerala, India for Saveur magazine
Make more time to: travel with my husband and two college-age kids, practice yoga, read the great novels, learn to swing dance, take pictures
Most adventurous assignment: documenting the aftermath of Hurricane Hugo in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands for the International Red Cross
Favorite color: light cadmium red
Pets: one Labrador, two Doxie mixes, one Lovebird
Collects: photographs, textiles, cactus, cowboy hats
Second language: rusty Spanish
Has lived in: El Paso, New Orleans, Hoboken, New York, Washington DC, Santa Fe, Austin, Denver
Favorite places: West Texas, Mexico, New Orleans, secret swimming holes, and my Denver home
Personal passions: motherhood, meditating, chronicling my family narrative with photographs
Collaborators: Zarela Martinez | Erica McNeish | TheKitchen.com | TheDailyMeal.com