Theresa Scarbrough 

Photographer + Creative Director

I am a food and drink photographer based in Chicago, Illinois with a photojournalism background and I still love creating storytelling narrative images. My passion for photographing food or doing food styling envelops my everyday life, whether it is going out to eat at a new or favorite restaurant or cooking at home after finding a new recipe or local market with new and exciting ingredient.

I’ve been taking photos professionally for almost two decades. My lifelong journey of visual storytelling started out as a newspaper photojournalist where on assignment’s I canoed down the Rio Grande River between the US and Mexico borders, flew in a vintage WWII airplane in an air show, where I had to wear a parachute for safety reasons (!), interviewed and wrote short articles to accompany photo essays, and more!

I moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota in 2018 and while there decided to earn a master’s degree in strategic communications at the University of Minnesota, deepening my knowledge of marketing creative content and building brands. While living in there I was recognized as one of the Twin Cities eight best food photographers! In late 2022, I returned to my hometown Chicago, Illinois, and am available for commercial photography assignments shooting for clients nationwide both on-location and remotely from my Chicago studio.

My strengths are commercial food and beverage, editorial portraits, narrative or conceptual, and personal branding.


Partial Client List

The Associated Press

Bake Magazine

Cooking Light

Chicago Tribune

Drury Lane Theater

The Food Network

The New York Times

Houston Chronicle

Sun Times Group

Serene Kitchen Co

Rock Shrimp Productions

USA Today