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NARRATIVE

FOOD AND TRAVEL PHOTOGRAPHY

 

Rizzoli | Ten Speed Press | Chronicle | Broadway

Clarkson Potter | Simon and Schuster

Houghton Mifflin | Macmillan

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