Food photographer · Seoul
Food, drink and restaurant photography made in natural light — menus, cookbooks, product and editorial. A running archive of recent shoots below, available for commissions and collaborations wherever there's a good window and a great kitchen.
Selected work
A running archive of recent shoots — menus, cookbook stories, drinks and product work — plated the way dishes arrive at the pass. No grid to fight against, just photographs given room to breathe. Click any image to open the full shoot.
Approach
Three principles shape every food commission, from the first message to the final files. They're the reason kitchens come back — and the reason the pictures still make people hungry a year later.
Food looks most appetising in honest daylight, so that's where I start — soft window light, real shadows, steam that reads as warm rather than staged. When a dark dining room needs help I'll shape a little continuous light to match, never a hard flash that flattens the plate.
I work with a full prop and surface library — linens, ceramics, weathered boards, glassware and cutlery — plus on-set food styling that keeps dishes looking freshly plated through every frame. Bring a chef and we'll plate together; come without one and I'll handle the styling end to end.
Menus and delivery apps can't wait a fortnight. A private online gallery of edited, web- and print-ready images arrives within five business days — often next morning for a single-session menu shoot — with a plain-language license and one point of contact throughout.
Process
From tasting menu to final gallery, here's how a restaurant shoot comes together.
Send a short note through the booking form describing the project — the dishes or drinks, how many, where the images will run (menu, delivery app, cookbook, campaign), and roughly when. I reply within two business days with availability and an honest, itemised quote. There's no obligation at this stage.
Once we're agreed, we settle the details together: a shot list built dish by dish, prop and surface direction, the running order that keeps hot food hot, and whether we shoot at your restaurant or in the daylight studio. A small deposit holds the date, and for editorial or campaign work I'll build a short moodboard so we're seeing the same table before the day arrives.
Dishes come out in a planned order so nothing wilts, melts or dries under the lights. I tether to a laptop so you — or your chef — can approve every plate full-size as we go, adjusting a garnish or a pour on the spot. Most menu sessions cover twelve to twenty dishes in a day; editorial stories run more slowly, by design.
Within five business days you receive a private online gallery of fully edited, high-resolution images — sized for menus, delivery apps, social and print — yours to download and use under a clear license. Extra retouching, alternate crops and CMYK exports are available whenever you need them.
Good to know
Either works. For restaurant menus your kitchen usually plates while I direct and style the final frame; for product, packaging and editorial I bring a food stylist and handle everything from prep to garnish. Tell me which suits you and it's built into the quote.
Investment
Starting points, not final quotes. Every shoot is priced honestly around its scope — dish count, styling, props and licensing are always itemised up front.
₩650,000per half day
₩1,100,000per half day
₩1,900,000per day
Indicative pricing — final quotes are itemised per project. Cookbook, packaging and campaign rates on request; travel outside Seoul quoted separately.
Kind words
Our new menu photos lifted delivery-app orders noticeably in the first month. The dishes finally look the way they taste — glossy, warm, never plasticky. And every plate was shot and approved before it left the pass.
We shot a full cookbook over four days and never once felt rushed. The natural-light stories hold together as a book, not a pile of stock shots. Art direction, styling and delivery were all handled without hand-holding.
Hired the studio for a drinks campaign and got images that actually looked like our label instead of a stock library. Calm on set, brilliant with condensation and pour shots, and early on delivery.
Selected clients & kitchens — Hansang Table · Namu Editions · Sanmaeul Brewing · Onjium Kitchen · Café Dorang · Seongsu Provisions · Jeju Salt & Sea · The Millstone Bakery.
Tell me a little about the dishes and where they'll run, and I'll reply within two business days with availability and a quote.
