The January 2012 issue of Popular Photography Magazine features a small profile about my food pairings series. Magazine articles always make me a little nervous—seems that regardless of how the interview goes the article ends up sounding like it’s about someone I don’t know. Sometimes the facts are incomplete or the adjectives are a bit [...]
It’s no secret that I have some German in my blood. What gave it away…my last name? Well, I like to bask in my German heritage which sometimes leads me on scavenger hunts for Germanesque stuff and junk—which often end up as props on set. I ran across this beautiful old (1917 to be exact) [...]
In a previous post “Want Hot Dog with that Ketchup and Mustard” you saw the evolution of a hot dog on canvas. Here’s a little video footage of the action from behind the scenes. photography: Kyle Dreier food styling: Whitney Kemp footage: Kyle Dreier, Rory White editing: Matt Huesmann So, what do you think? Wanna [...]
What do you get when you put together a fine crew of people and lock them up in a house for two weeks with lots of food? Well, that’s kinda what we did except we weren’t exactly “locked up” together against our will. We did spend two weeks on location at two different houses and [...]
(ring, ring …) Hello, Kyle Dreier speaking. Hi Kyle, this is Katie at Food Network Magazine. Hi Katie, what’s up? Are you available to shoot a five-pound cannoli? Um, a “five-pound cannoli?” Count me in! – – – – – – – – – – – Well, that’s pretty much how this assignment got started. [...]
There’s no doubt that art influences my work. (How could it not? Countless semesters of art history lodged themselves in my sleep-deprived brain many years ago.) Sometimes the influences are more apparent than others. In this case the influence is more of an homage to the artist. Let’s just call this a food inspired homage. [...]
In a way it seems like just yesterday but at the same time it seems like a long long time ago—in June we spent two weeks with the fine folks of Publix Super Markets on location here in the Nashville area. The result is the Start Something brochure designed to be similar to popular “inspiration [...]
Back in September I mentioned (and sorta teased about) the double-top-secret cookbook project I was working on with local author and blogger extraordinaire Courtney Dial (soon to be Whitmore). Well, the cat is out of the bag … the publisher (Gibbs-Smith) has announced “Push-up Pops”—available March 2012. These new push-up gizmos are reminiscent of the [...]
What started as a simple conversation over lunch on the patio of 12 South Taproom this Summer turned into a fun one night event for the four of us. The “4″ theme had no significant meaning other than it was four of us contributors: John Scarpati: a collection of musician portraits spanning back to the [...]
When you’re working in the studio on a relatively small food photography set and focused on a normal sized bowl of shrimp and noodles you don’t really think about the final photograph being enlarged to this! Yowzers! Thanks Ryan for sending this over. I’m still waiting for Wok Hay to make it into our market [...]
There are a number of aspects of my work that I enjoy—one of the recurring highlights is working with artists passionate about what they do. I’m using the word “artist” in somewhat of a broad sense—food stylists, prop stylist, assistant, or in this case an accomplished chef. In general, what I observe about fellow artists [...]
There is in me a constant itch, an itch to create. I got bit at an early age and that bite just needs itching, a lot of itching—it’s always there, and it’s not going away. I’m not sure if it’s just the way I’m wired or if other “creatives” deal with the same incessant itchiness. [...]
As a kid I spent a lot of time with my Grandma Wiens in Hutchinson, Kansas. I was born in Newton, Kansas but moved to Dallas, Texas at the age of two and a half. (This, unfortunately, prevents me from being a “native” Texan as any boastful Texas born individual will quickly point out. Amy. [...]
We’re leading another Shoot Eat Learn workshop this week. We’ll be at Fido in Hillsboro Village—enjoying the food prepared by Chef John Stephenson and looking at how to style food for the camera. Join food photographer Kyle Dreier and food stylist Teresa Blackburn for a couple hours of fun, food and photography. 7 to 9 [...]
In late 1998 my wife and I moved to Nashville from Dallas, Texas. Our new friends here in Nashville talked about the cicada invasion that happens every thirteen years. We’d missed the Summer 1998 event and frankly kind of just dismissed the apocalyptic tone of these eyewitnesses. Growing up in Texas we had cicadas every [...]
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