I Moved to Knoxville Tennessee about 10 months ago and wasn’t sure I would have ANY work. I’ve always worked in fashion and fashion-adjacent industries, and I didn’t imagine this town had much of that.

I will say, I showed up with an open mind. A few old friends passed my name around and I ended up with a initial opportunities that all involved…. food.

Not fashion. Ok, but Food??

It didn’t bother me, but it worried me. What if I have no idea how to photograph a perfect tabletop, or when to ask the stylist to change the recipe?

It turns out that having a background in photographing people is a great basis for just about anything. It also turned out that during my ten year hustle that led to this, i actually HAD photographed a fair amount of food without realizing it. It was just buried in shoots with influencers and models. People are practically ubiquitous in commercial photography and so is food. So here’s some examples of the kinds of things I have been doing the last few months. Let me know what you think. The perfect balance of people and food culture.