Recipes to Live By
Photographing cookbooks is one of the best parts of my job, but the whole process seems like a fever dream when you’re finally holding the finished product. It starts with the excitement of booking the job, then the slog of planning and back-and-forth with the author/publisher/art department to ensure the shoot goes smoothly, which leads to long days in studio and on location, then even longer days sitting in front of the computer turning those images into gold.
And then…nothing. For months. Just long enough to almost forget that there are loads of images just waiting to be shared.
THEN… drumroll… publishing day arrives! For Al Roker’s Recipes to Live By, that’s today!
It was a joy to work on this project with Courtney Roker Laga (Al’s daughter, and the driving force behind the book), as well as spend some time photographing Al, Courtney and Deborah for the lifestyle images.
For a more detailed writeup on the process of bringing this book to life, along with fun behind-the-scenes photos and videos, take a look at the landing page I’ve dedicated to it.
I’ll be back with more posts about the nitty-gritty of planning and executing a cookbook, at least from a photographer’s perspective. But for now, I’m just happy to share this with you.
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Now that this cookbook is out in the world, I’d love to announce that I’ll be shooting another one very soon! Marissa Rothkopf Bates of The Secret Life of Cookies is finalizing her recipes now, so we’ll have this baby wrapped up by the holidays. I may be 10 pounds heavier by then, but it’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make. For art. Yeah, art.
