I’m starting a project within a project. So you know I’ve been doing my behind-the-scenes project, photographing at different restaurants, kitchens, bakeries, and etc. Well I decided to concentrate on a single subject for the next round, DOUGH! More specifically yeasty dough.
Check out these photos I took at Vaucluse with head baker and my friend Jacqueline Russo Eng. Jacqueline and her team are in charge of baking the breads for Vaucluse, Marea, and Ai Fiori.
What is photography to you? Does it change depending on the format you're using?
I try to shoot with film constantly and every time I get my pictures back from the photo store, they feel so much more precious than my digital snaps. I love the graininess of it, the unexpected purple hue, the sense that I photographed something well without the help of a computer telling me that I'm not exposing properly.
I didn't realize this but photography has become the thing I go to when I need a moment of quietness. When I'm feeling just a little bit too suffocated by people...work....life, I instinctively grab my camera and go for long walks.
And analog forces me to focus on a photo and let me just phase out my worries.
All images photographed on Kodak Portra 400 with a Hasselblad
What's your favorite thing to photograph? You might think it's food for me but it's actually CLOUDS! I love clouds. Fluffy ones, anime looking ones, dark stormy ones. No one cloud looks like another cloud and once you miss it....that's it.
