On today’s podcast, I talk with Rachel Korinek of Two Loves Studio, an Australian food and still life photographer based in Vancouver. As a photographer, Rachel is known for bright and uplifting visual storytelling. As a teacher, her love for educating has inspired her to share her knowledge with both novice and expert alike through her insightful blog, e-books and courses. Rachel has worked for clients like Nikon, Huff Post, West Elm, Aldi, and many more. In this episode, besides talking about Rachel’s decade-long journey working in the commercial photography industry, we deep dive into the topic of building a great food photography portfolio.

On today’s podcast, I talk with Heather Barnes, a Food Photographer and Stylist based out of Austin,Texas. Heather is known for her romantic feeling images and her blog, Mrs. Barnes, where she shares simple, seasonal recipes and how to throw a dinner party as a modern woman. While Heather enjoys working with small local businesses, she has also worked with big names such as Ghirardelli and Bobs Redmill. Today we talk about her journey to becoming a food photographer, the differences between working for small or big clients, and shooting/styling ice cream.

On today’s podcast, I talk with Donna Crous, an award winning blogger and food photographer based out of Surrey, UK. Donna has been a Pink Lady “Food Photographer of the Year” Finalist for four years in a row, from 2017 to 2020, along with many other accolades throughout the recent years. Donna is best known for her food photography, styling, and recipe development from a broad range of health food magazines to cookbooks. Donna plans to soon release her own cookbook A Healthier Family For Life, which is expected to release in late 2021. Donna also works closely with Nikon as a Nikon Europe Ambassador. Her clientele base is widespread throughout the UK, the United States, and South Africa. Today we talk about her Nikon Ambassadorship, working with an agent, and the varying expectations of clients when making a cookbook.

On today’s podcast, I talk with Joanie Simon, a commercial food photographer, stylist, and educator in food photography based in Phoenix, Arizona. Along with working for a wide variety of clients including cookbooks and digital marketing content, she is also known as The Bite Shot, an educational food photography tutorial youtube channel with almost 280k followers, and Instagram of the same name with 105K followers where she shares the behind the scenes of her work. Joanie has also recently released her book, Picture Perfect Food: Master the Art of Food Photography in 52 bite-sized tutorials. Today she shares with us how she started her successful youtube channel, what it takes to shoot for a cookbook, and her new book.

On today’s podcast, I talk with Kimberly Espinel, known as The Little Plantation, an award winning Editorial and commercial food photographer, educator and podcaster. Kimberly has a following of 106K followers on Instagram,, and has recently released her Amazon best-selling book Creative Food Photography: How to capture exceptional images of food. You may know her from her Food Photography Podcast and Instagram challenge Eat, Capture, Share. Kimberly has worked with many big clients such as Waitrose, Kitchenaid UK, Sony, Tefal, Tate & Lyle Sugars and more. Kimberly shares with us tips on how to grow your Instagram with a highly engaged audience.

In this episode I am speaking with food photographer Darina Kopcok. She is also a food photography teacher at Vancouver Institute of Media Arts and contributing writer to PRO EDU and Digital Photography School. We talk about stock photography, how to approach it, what is the difference between micro stock and premium stock, what stock companies are out there and more.

In today’s episode I’m talking with a wonderful food blogger and photographer Anna Wierzbinska, also known as Anna Banana. Anna manages a successful food blog, she photographs for many restaurants and brands and manages her own Instagram account with 35k followers. I had such a lovely conversation with Anna, and we dive into so many interesting topics like working with local brands and restaurants, shifting mindset during crises, sponsored posts, building experience and professionalising business. She also shares some of her favorite books that helped her build a more professional food photography business. You can find the links to those books in the podcast notes on my website.

In this episode, I am talking with a Romanian food writer & published author Irina Georgescu. Irina has recently published her passion project Carpathia, a book about Romanian cuisine, which she is so fascinated about it. We spend a whole conversation digging into the behind the scenes of this project that took about 3 years from the idea to actually having a book in stores. 

In today’s episode I am speaking with the wonderful Lauren Caris. I was so excited for this conversation because I’ve been following her for a while now and I am completely in love with her images. Lauren is a great food photographer and educator, dedicating a lot of her time teaching others about the behind the scenes of the food photography world. So as you would expect, there is a long list of interesting tips that Lauren taught me during our conversation. I can’t wait to share them with you. We discuss topics such as pricing and licensing fee, building long-term customer relationships & importance of email marketing, having a business coach and many more photography business related topics.

In this episode I am speaking with a lovely food photographer Ingrid Hofstra. I found Ingrid through her gorgeous travel photography images, and couldn’t just wait to speak to her. Not only because of her beautiful portfolio but also because this talented photographer has been published in magazines like Ellen Eten, National Geographic, and Harper’s Bazaar. So I thought she’ll have lots to tell me, and indeed the stories I heard from Ingrid were amazing!

In this super exciting episode I am speaking with Suus. Suus together with her husband Johann share allergy friendly recipes on their food blog Foodbandits & Instagram account @foodbandits. They already published two wonderful cookbooks “Good morning” and “Andere Koek” (both in Dutch)..

In this episode I’m speaking with Anna Chwistek from @anna_s_table & Serving Dumplings blog. A winner of Saveur Blog Award for most inspiring weeknight dinners 2019, and a member team Nikon in Belgium.