Thank You to our Photographers
Location: InterMedia Productions; intermediaproductions.com
“You don’t take a photograph, you make it”—Ansel Adams Meet the team on the other side of the lens. Thank you for the countless cover shoots, ninja like skills, and truly making Edible Sarasota so beautiful.
Tell us your favorite assignment and why
Jenny Acheson
Out of so many fun assignments, two photo shoots stick out in my mind. The first was the happy time spent in the Moroccan chef Dylan Elhajoui’s family kitchen preparing for an alfresco dinner (Cooks 2017 issue). All the family (wife Anne and four incredible kids) were there helping: chopping, cooking, baking, playing music, styling the table, and ultimately feasting on duck tagine and delicious sides. Yum!!! The second fabulously fun shoot was “Lido Lounge” (Summer 2016 issue), which involved the Edible team getting to North Lido Beach by boat; a group of friends picnicking on grilled fish tacos at rustic tables and benches built by my husband, Dale; and a gorgeous sunset, grooving to lovely guitar music. I love my job!!!
Peter Acker
My favorite assignment was my first for Edible, “Sea to Plate” (Summer 2011 issue), featuring my friend and fishing buddy Chef Steve Phelps. It was the year Indigenous opened and it’s been so great watching him go from strength to strength since then. I had a vision for one particular image of Captain Brian Marcey throwing the cast net at sunrise and I was thrilled when it ended up being selected as the cover of that issue.
Daniel Perales
From photographing quail eggs in Myakka City (Fall 2018 issue) to mushrooms downtown (Fall 2016 issue), photographing at the Phillippi Creek Farmhouse Market is one of my favorites shoots for Edible. It’s like doing 10 shoots at one time. I enjoy photographing people around good food and company. I am so fortunate to be part of Edible and the regional community.
Kathryn Brass-Piper
There have been countless Edible projects that have been memorable, but probably my favorite involves a herd of bison (Spring 2014 issue). We were covering the Three Suns Ranch in Punta Gorda, and the ranch owner drove us out onto a pasture where all of his bison were grazing. It was so exciting to walk among those massive animals and photograph them only a few feet away!
Chad Spencer
As a photographer, you never know what the day might bring you … I have had the opportunity to work with Edible on many stories over the years and have met some very interesting people and photographed some amazing foods. One assignment stuck out in my mind as most memorable: “The Hog Hunter” (Fall 2011 issue): Matthew Freeman and I met our ride at the very end of University, hopped in the pickup truck, and off we went into the sticks! I have only gone hunting a few times, as teenager with my dad, and really didn’t have a lot of knowledge of how to hunt hogs. The dogs they used were “working dogs”—all business! Watching them hunt down a hog was a sight to see. In less than two minutes they had trapped a hog and the men went in right after them. To see these dogs pinning down this 150-pound hog, WOW!
