photos on these pages and my portrait by Trent Bailey Rue Magazine Issue 3 just launched this week, and I was especially eager to see this one! On pages 60+61 of the current issue you’ll find A Skill-Sharing Jamboree in NYC, organized and designed by You + Me* Lifestylists, featuring...
Welcome to my newly redesigned Food and Art and Still Life website: FoodandArt.com featuring food photographs from a recent cookbook in the Hamptons, still life, travel, and portraiture. Thanks for taking a look! (site graphics by OhJoy! flash by dstripe)
...For November's Image of the Month, I chose a photograph of Silvia Lehrer's linguini with slow roasted plum tomatoes. I chose it because it is the opening image for my newly re-designed food website, which I launched last week. Please take a look at the new FoodandArt.com featuring photographs of scrumptious...
I recently had the opportunity to go back to my hometown (Montreal, Canada) to photograph some dishes prepared by Michele Mercuri, the executive chef at XO Le Restaurant, at the Hotel Le St-James, for Food Arts. I loved the experience, these chefs treat plating like it's sculpture!
...For those of you who are new to Karen Wise Photography, welcome and feel free to look around! You will see that I shoot Weddings, Travel and Food (and more weddings can be found at KarenWise.com). My Food site (FoodandArt.com) which has been around since I bought the url in 1998, is...
I chose these images for my Image of the Month newsletter for July because they remind me of summer. On my last trip out to Long Island to photograph for Silvia Lehrer's cookbook, Savoring the Hamptons, I shot some just-picked East End peaches and blueberries. With such ease, in her...
In May, I had the pleasure of meeting and photographing a beekeeper. Her name is Mary Woltz and her business is called Bees' Needs. Mary proved to have no fear as she handled her hives and racks with her bare hands, without a beekeeper's suit on. She talked to her bees in whispers,...
I've been a bit obsessed lately with scanning old polaroids and making new ones. Especially since a lot of the Polaroid films for my professional cameras have recently been discontinued. This rhubarb photo was made on Fuji instant film for the cookbook I am working on with Silvia Lehrer....
Here are some film prints (proofs) I just got back from the lab for the Hamptons cookbook. Now I’m back in Water Mill at Silvia Lehrer’s to resume shooting. So much fun. More recipes and photos to come!
...I’ve been working on location lately in the Hamptons for food writer and recipe developer Silvia Lehrer’s next cookbook, Savoring the Hamptons. I was in Silvia’s home in Water Mill, NY for 4 days last week, shooting her recipes and visiting local farms where I shot farmers and artisans with...