Daylight food studio with props, linens and a styled plate on the bench

About

The Studio

A food photography studio built around patience, natural light, and pictures that make people hungry — the way a dish looks the moment it lands on the table.

Statement

Food before words

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I've spent the last decade photographing food in the light it deserves — soft window daylight, real steam, honest shadow. No plastic gloss, no fake ice cubes, no glue where there should be sauce. The pictures I care about are the ones that make you want to reach into the frame, not the ones that only look good on a lightbox.

My work runs across restaurant menus, delivery-app libraries, cookbooks, packaging and drinks campaigns. Whatever the brief, the goal is the same: images that still make a dish look freshly plated a year later, and that sell the food without lying about it. I'd rather deliver twelve true hero shots than a folder of near-identical frames no one uses.

I trained as a chef before moving behind the camera, and that kitchen habit — mise en place, timing, respect for a plate at its peak — never left. It's why a shoot runs on a tight running order, and why so much of the work happens in the seconds between the pass and the shutter.

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Gallery

A few frames from the archive

Overhead plated dish in soft morning daylight
Cocktail with condensation and a citrus garnish
Close detail of a dish being finished at the pass
Still-life of ingredients and props on a weathered board
Table set for an editorial food story at dusk
Textured close study of fresh produce in daylight

Details

What to expect

Menu, cookbook & editorial

Commissions across restaurant menus, delivery-app libraries, cookbooks, packaging, product and drinks. Small cafés and national brands both get the same unhurried attention on set.

Five-day delivery

A private online gallery arrives within five business days — often next morning for a single menu session — sized for menus, apps, social and print. Rush same-day delivery is available when timelines are tight.

Studio or on-site

Based in Seoul, shooting at your restaurant or in the daylight studio. Travel and any location costs are quoted transparently up front, so nothing surprises you on the invoice.

Food styling in-house

On-set styling and a full prop, linen and surface library come as standard, so dishes look freshly plated in every frame without hours of fuss between shots.

Kitchen-fluent on set

Trained in a working kitchen, so I plan a running order that keeps hot food hot and cold food crisp — and I speak your chef's language when we plate together.

Clear licensing

Usage terms explained in plain language before we shoot, so there are no surprises later about where and how the images can appear — menu, app, print or campaign.

Questions

Frequently asked

A week or two is comfortable for most menu shoots, though I can often turn around urgent delivery-app or launch work faster — just ask. Multi-day cookbook and campaign projects are best planned three to four weeks out.

Let's make the food look its best

Send a short note about your dishes and where they'll run to begin.