Women's Health Magazine/ Fire up your Greens

Photography: Zac Desart

Photography: Zac Desart

Photography: Zac Desart

Photography: Zac Desart

Photography: Zac Desart

For the April Issue of Women's Health Magazine I got the opportunity to push the boundaries a little with a brighter poppier palette than usual. It was also the first time I got to work with Photographer Zac Desart. I really like Zac's fresh take, using a ultra graphic, high key approach with shadows. 

The food was styled by the very talented Jamie Kimm. 

Bright yellows and oranges with a slight 1970's feel was what I was going for, It was essentially a wilted greened story so the colors really help the wilted greens come alive and not so wilted. 

Hope you enjoy the sunny palette and it inspires us all to eat more greens, especially in these Winter months!  

Women's Health/ Stone Fruit & Cocktails

Photography by Romulo Yanes 

Photography by Romulo Yanes  

Photography by Romulo Yanes 

Photography by Romulo Yanes 

Main Photograph: Romulo Yanes

Main Photograph: Romulo Yanes 

For the July Issue of Women's Health, I was asked again to contribute to their food pages for the July Issue. Once again I got to work with Photographer Romulo Yanes and it was once again such a pleasure as always. The stories we shot were on Skinny Cocktails and Stone Fruit, everybody's favorite in Summer. The palette was relatively neutral for Some Fruits but I was instructed to pick up the colors of the fruit themselves ever so slightly so I wove in some pale lilac's and pinks, but offset it with some blues and greens on neutral backgrounds, For cocktails it was all about choosing the right silhouettes for the drinks, Making sure they all looked different and had a mixture of classic but interesting shapes. When shooting cocktails you often need a ready supply of many multiples of the same clean glass as they need to be refreshed in the shot often 2/3 times before getting the perfect one. This is harder when three are in the shot at the same time : )   


The food  and drinks were styled by the very talented Victoria Granof who is well known for working with the late and great Photographer Irving Penn for over a decade. Her approach to food she sums up as saying on her website "It's about the emotion" I would have to agree, her passion shines through, I always love watching a Food Stylist at work, It is indeed a very specialized profession as some would say is also mine, We all in this industry get paid to make often difficult things look very simple.   

Women's Health/ Breast vs Legs

Photography: Romulo Yanes

Photography: Romulo Yanes

Photography: Romulo Yanes

Photography: Romulo Yanes

In the latest April issue of Women's Health I worked on a Chicken feature which I shot with the extremely talented Romulo Yanes I was very excited to work with Romulo who spent many years working on the very missed Gourmet Magazine which still has an online presence but no longer exists in it's printed form, perhaps scarily the way of most magazines may go in the not so near future? Gourmet Magazine as many of you know was a magazine that ran from 1941 till 2009, It sadly closed due to a decline in Advertising sales. Women's Health, only 7 years old, however is thankfully still going strong with over 1.5 million readers. The brands magazine allows women a smart and organized approach to keeping their lives on track and staying healthy. 


The Chicken Story was briefed to me to be in the colors of green and soft pink, We had only 4 recipes so it was a short one. We also shot a great bulbs story on the same day that can also be seen in the same issue, but in all honesty, all I did was source a marble surface for that one : ) My first time with the magazine, I look forward to working with both Romulo and Women's Health some more in the future.