Food
A creative project incorporating mussels and bread from a local bakery.
Mussels: Costco
Baguette: Circles and Squares
Coupes: CB2
Small bowls: Simons
Serving dish: Oak and Fort Home
Linens, cutlery: H&M Home
Photographed for: Maru Bistro
Maru Bistro is a Japanese restaurant using French techniques located in Leslieville, a neighbourhood in the east end of Toronto. Before I worked with them to create these beautiful photos, I had visited this restaurant multiple times. I enjoy the food, the casual ambiance, and the wonderful staff and I always look forward to coming back.
Ebi trio sliders
Ebi slider
Octopus two ways (crispy and grilled): Octopus, green salad, shiso pesto, miso sauce, spicy mayo
Sunomono salad: glass noodle, tako, black tiger shrimp, surf clam, seaweed, ponzu dressing
Mary Macleod’s Shortbread is a Toronto-based shortbread company that started as a small bakeshop in 1981. They refreshed their branding and packaging so they needed new marketing assets to for their website and social media.
I built the backdrop and sets for the hero banner images across the website, styled the products, and photographed them according to their brief.
This content, along with past work I created, are now used on their website and social media.
Saintly Wine, a Canadian brand of wine including a sauvignon blanc, rosé, sparkling white and sparkling rosé.
My role for this project was to create the lighting that puts the spotlight on the product.
Photographer: Dani Reynolds
Lighting: Janet Kwan
I was looking for inspiration to spark some creativity and originally, I was aiming for a photo, but ended up making this fun stop motion.
Use only IKEA products to create a refreshing food and drink photo. Everything here, except for the backdrop, is from IKEA. Even the surface that everything is sitting on and the shadows were created from IKEA products.
Here are the products I used:
