Food Photography by Anna Williams

Anna Williams was born in Richmond and studied photography at the University of the South. It was there that visiting professor Owen Butler told her: "If you want to shoot, start assisting." So she moved to New York and converted a tiny East Village bathroom into a darkroom while assisting some of the top studio photographers of the time. A few years later she was out on her own, and soon after that was recognized by PDN’s 30 under 30 for her outstanding work. Since then, Anna has been shooting for clients such as Martha Stewart Living, Real Simple, O Magazine, Food & Wine, Wal-Mart, Target, Proctor & Gamble, and Williams Sonoma. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, daughter, and son.

Creative Food Photography by Kevin Van Aelst

Kevin Van Aelst is one of the New York Times Magazine's most original contributing photographers. Inspired by artists such as Tom Friedman and Andy Goldsworthy, and after years of discovering moments of beauty to capture photographically, Van Aelst realized he was after a new challenge and the opportunity to experiment with a new technique, to show irony through art.



"My color photographs consist of common artifacts and scenes from everyday life, which have been rearranged, assembled, and constructed into various forms, patterns, and illustrations. The images aim to examine the distance between the ‘big picture’ and the ‘little things’ in life—the banalities of our daily lives, and the sublime notions of identity and existence."