A wild few hours of power shot for Misc., Parramatta.
Luke Powell and his sausage factory shot for Selector Magazine.
Art direction: Kim Douglas
Photography for Ho Jiak: A Taste of Malaysia by Junda Khoo. Heartfelt and colourful.
Published by Rushani Epa, Hardie Grant
Design by Evi O Studio
Styling by Lucy Tweed
From the early morning seafood auction, the happenings of every retailer on the market floor and all those famous blue buckets. Rebrand photography for the iconic institution that is the Sydney Fish Market.
Yeah I met Mama, and Mama fed me way too well. Product and process imagery for Sydney’s beloved chilli oil Mama Liu’s.
Hot Bread, Baked Stuff and Coffee (coffee not pictured) for Self Raised Bread Shoppe.
Food writer Lara Lee and her cheesy kimchi linguine with gochujang butter in her Sydney home for The Wall Street Journal.
Everything I do, I do for pizza. Campaign photography for Hank’s Hot Box, Neapolitan pizza kits delivered to your door.
Design and direction by Stephen Grace
RECENTLY: Working hard in a sanitised time. A glossy, colourful, 52 page book of photos I’ve taken, or work that was published, throughout the pandemic era. Each pair of images has a link, some obvious (like wedges of citrus), and some not so overt.
Not for schmoozing and not for sale; an exercise in gratitude rather than design.
A new direction in photography for Lotus Dining Group – an approachable, punchy set for Lotus Dumpling Bar.
It’s dreamy, it’s brilliant and we’re here to enjoy those long coffee shadows. Menu and venue photography for Marrickville’s All Day Diner, Valentinas.
A dinner party so generous and so abundant you wouldn’t believe it was staged. Kinda. Shot for I Love Lúpe taco kits.
Japan, Japan, Japan. Eating, walking, observing, politely shoving my camera in places.
Selected prints are available here.
The studio of ceramic artist Alana Wilson for the New York Times’ T Magazine.
I’m in love with a celestial Cypriot biscuit, a rousing Greek cupboard staple for family, visitors and coffee – kourabiethes. They’re hazardously short and besieged in icing sugar, with insides mottled with almonds.
Recipe developed, written about and photographed for Desmond and Dempsey’s The Sunday Paper issue 10.
Edited by Sam Hillman.
Matt Whiley at Re- Bar shot for Punch’s high concept series. Pictured here is the Back in Black, a highball made of blackened pumpkin and blackened banana, and Rico's Tacos, a cocktail featuring leftover taco masa.
Toyo-san lights his ciggie by flamethrower before dipping his fingers into ice water. In an act that borders ingenuity and madness, Toyo-san grills his signature dish of tuna cheeks in the flames with his bare hands, briefly submerging one in the water as a reprise from the blaze he absurdly sets upon himself. As well as the charring smoke, theatrical steam rises from his wet forearms. Dappled light from the canopy above falls on the stainless steel tabletops held up by blue crates, assorted trolleys and locked down step ladders. Visible cables to connect the fluorescent lights run across the sides of the izakaya’s pagola, the staff uniforms are blue t-shirts with short white gumboots. The floor is dotted with bright red shopping baskets to rest your handbags and totes. The menu of the day is written in marker on a whiteboard leaning against the open kitchen. It’s packed.
Mostly on holiday, and always when I don’t have the good equipment.
Pepperoni dreams, cascading cheese and Coke in glass bottles. Menu photography with energy for Bexley North’s best pizza at My Mother’s Cousin.
From sponge cakes to Neapolitan pizza, from Basque cheesecakes to tahinopita – I like to bake and I love tang(y flavours). Tang Baking is my alt for posting photos of things I make at home applying high heat, inspired by my tangy sourdough starter and appreciation for my domestic surrounds.
Photography for Hong Kong Local by ArChan Chan. A must-read, must-have, and must-drool-over book for your shelf.
Published by Hannah Koelmeyer, Smith Street Books
Design by Evi O
Styling by Bridget Wald
Imagery for the wonderful Pioik Bakery in Pyrmont, Sydney.
Up close with all the good things for Cartilage Local’s recipe card box sets, where two-thirds of each sale price goes directly to restaurants.
An All Australian, New South Wales road trip across Old Bar, Scone and Mudgee for Kelly and Co Hotels.
Art direction and design: Olly Barnes and Gosia Gasiorowski at Made by Mustard.
Imagery for The Amalfi Way restaurant in Woolloomooloo, Sydney.
Every Meal We Shared is a 56 page zine written, photographed and designed by me. What began as an exercise in documenting lunch and dinners I made for two during this isolation period is now a food-centric book, or a relic-to-be of a weird time.
Available to purchase here.
As a daughter and granddaughter of migrants hailing from Egypt and Cyprus, I am often pulled in different directions concerning the ‘Aussie’ way to do and cater for Christmas.
Christmas lunch for friends at home for Tokyo-based food publication Appetite. Photos, food and words by me.
A photographer refresher for cocktails new and old at Barangaroo House’s rooftop bar Smoke.
A broadsheet all about Manly and its people, small businesses, lifestyle, beaches and surrounding areas by The National Grid for Porteño Living.
Art direction: Olly Barnes
Food and documentary photography for the International Convention Centre, Sydney.
Food styling by Jane Collins.
Flaounes – the two dough, tri-cheese, sesame seed encrusted annual Cypriot (despite what the tablecloth implies) delight. An intentionally Yiayia-heavy set. Always grateful to my grandparents for our heritage.
Food photography for Bangkok Local by Sarin Rojanametin and Jean Thamthanakorn.
Published by Hannah Koelmeyer, Smith Street Books
Design by Evi O
Styling by Nat Turnbull
Fashion and food editorial for Incu Edition.
Photography for Tokyo Local by Caryn and Brendan Liew.
Published by Hannah Koelmeyer, Smith Street Books
Design by Evi O
Styling by Nat Turnbull
Portraits and faces in places, various commissioned work.
Artists and makers in their studios and natural habitats.
Some interiors, some bustle. Various commissioned work.
My accidental viral sensation.
Extreme milkshakes. The well-garnished milky beverage game of Sydney has reached peaked virality. Donuts perched upon mason jars, Kit-Kats wedged like an unholy crucifix: doused in chocolate sauce knotted with lashings of whipped cream, a striped straw puncturing everything in its path, impaling every adornment. Heavy handled jars of flavoured milk are spewing from so many cafes in pure copycat style, each establishment attempting to outdo the last, to outplay the originals who rightly hold the claim to fame. Freddo Frogs drowning in salted caramel milk, achingly slow, their faces submerged with that deranged smile like something out of a horror film, ganache is oozing from its enormous lip, pretzels, M&Ms and 100’s and 1000’s tacked on just for show. And the Oreos, my god the Oreos, they’re everywhere, and everyone’s got one, and everyone’s holding one of these extreme milkshakes, gnashing at food for the sake of social media, exchanging calories for notifications, it’s 8 o’clock in the morning and everybody’s drinking them to avoid the hour long lines from the brunching hour onwards to attain the Thing. The cult. The cult of Extreme Milkshakes. It’s here and we’re all trapped in a vortex of milk and Nutella and garnishes the moment we open Instagram.
But, if you can’t beat them, join them. Here are three flavours of my own: S’Mores Chicken, Bacon Burger and Coles Baked Fresh Today Bakery Aisle. Be inspired. Eat marshmallows and chicken. Milkshake flavours are irrelevant now, the duty falls upon whatever lies on top. May God have mercy on us all.
An early morning producer story in collaboration with Mark Moran Vaucluse, chef Perry Hill, Ewan McAsh and Signature Oysters.
Holiday Notes: Notes From a Holiday is a limited edition 290 page book, journal, travel guide and photo album, made possible by the generosity of Kickstarter supporters.
There are only 100 numbered copies and is sold out.
Documentary photography for Tourism Australia's Restaurant Australia – Invite The World To Dinner campaign in Hobart.
Various commissioned and personal work.
