Commercial photography and creative direction for food, hospitality, and lifestyle brands. A steady hand that makes them look like themselves, but better.
James Beard Foundation · nominated for visual storytelling.
Published nationally in food, hospitality, and lifestyle.
I started on the other side of the kitchen.
Years in restaurants taught me how a dish is meant to feel before it's tasted, and why the smallest details carry the whole story. Twenty years behind a camera began there. Photography, creative direction, and the two together. Different outputs, one practice.
Good work refuses to look assembled. It is made by someone who has looked at enough to know what to leave out.
He doesn't just take beautiful photos. He understands brand storytelling, team dynamics, hospitality, and human emotion. He becomes invested in the work and in the people behind it, and that shows up in every image he creates.
Working with Andrew is not only super productive but crazy fun. He has a way of getting our team to relax into the work, and when the team is relaxed, that's when we truly shine. Andrew has an eye for seeing what we do through a similar, but better lens than we do, and he's completed for us in a day what would take others two days to shoot. In a world of fast-moving trends and seasonal menus, his speed has dramatically increased our returns on every shoot.
A photographer's eye. A strategist's discipline. A modern toolkit. In that order, always.
The eye is the practice. Modern tools accelerate the work. They do not decide it.
The anchor of the practice. Food, hospitality, lifestyle. Editorial, brand libraries, the images a brand lives on.
Voice, concept, and visual systems for brands that refuse to look templated.
For brands who want a single creative partner across photography and direction. See Adelaide below.
The eye, kept close.
Some brands need a senior creative voice in the room, not hired for one job and gone by next quarter. A monthly engagement across direction, audit, and craft. Feedback when the next decision actually matters. Recommendations on vendors, talent, and next moves. Shoots when shoots are the right answer.
Three-month minimum. Most engagements run twelve.
Adelaide began as something I made for my daughter.
A daily practice for attention, built when the world was still completely new to her. Three short rituals: Presence, Play, Purpose. A woodblock scene that reveals itself over ten days, one layer at a time.
No streaks. No notifications. No points to chase. A one-time purchase, because attention shouldn't come with a subscription.
Users do not earn points. They earn sight.
Explore Adelaide →
Anheuser‑Busch InBev·Marriott International·The Dewberry·Indigo Road Hospitality·Hall Management Group·SSP America·IBM·Juliska·Mellow Mushroom·Tears of Llorona·Ceritas·Weefarer·Tuckernuck·Middleton Made Knives
Garden & Gun·The Wall Street Journal·The New York Times·Condé Nast·Condé Nast Traveler·Food & Wine·Architectural Digest
The credential I care about most is the callback.
If you're building something worth seeing, I'd love to hear about it.
