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.