You can find the latest issue of Edible Manhattan at your favorite bookseller, magazine stand, or Whole Foods, and the above article is also available for digital consumption here. Have a peek at a few portraits and detail shots from my shoot at Chelsea Brewing Company below.

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I’m excited to spread the word about Little Esop’s new site because of their dedication to using 100% organic fabrics to update vintage looks, and because I take all of their pictures for them! Including the product flats!

Head on over to Little Esop and have a look for yourself, and if you have an infant or toddler in your life then you still have a bit of time to get an order in before Christmas. If you don’t, then you can have a look at bit of my commercial kids portfolio.

The Feast of the Seven Fishes is an Italian tradition in which seven different seafood dishes are consumed on Christmas Eve, meant to celebrate the wait for the birth of the baby Jesus, and I was tasked with photographing said fishes (and more) at D. Coluccio & Sons- a third generation Italian market in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn.

Have a look above at the front page (and my page) from the Edible article, and below at a few extra shots from the day, including portraits of the original owner’s grandson (and current manager), Louis Coluccio. Mangia!

¡Bienvenido a casa, José!

With the know-how from a successful career in clothing and product design for some of the world’s biggest brands, Elaine has now turned her attention to her love of illustration, children’s books, and fashion design, all lovingly folded together into a personal project with a dash (or two) of character and a healthy helping of heart.

Couture paper dolls (the titular ‘Belles’), paper jewelry, coloring pages, stationary, and limited edition plushies and artwork fill the shop, with it’s pastel paper lanterns lowering the ceiling and bringing in the walls, making you feel like you’ve shrunk down to doll size and stepped inside a small door on a three-tier birthday cake- walls painted with icing and confetti covering the floor,

or summoning the nostalgia of pulling the bed sheets over your head as a child and exploring your imagination with a flashlight underneath.

I’ve had the opportunity over the past few months to help Elaine with media and marketing- photographing her products, interiors and exteriors of her shop, covering events in her space, and shooting tutorial videos.

The fruits of Elaine’s labor (and a little bit of mine) can be seen at Dumbelle’s excellently-designed website, with much of my photography on the Store and About pages, and you can keep up to date with Dumbelle through Elaine’s blog, The Dumbelle Diary.

And if you do want to learn how to cut out a paper doll, then you should watch this.

Shot and filmed in one evening in room 105 of the Pilgrim Sands Motel, Plymouth, Massachusetts.

(See a larger version of this video here.)

For those not in the know, Bastille Day celebrates the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille fortress-prison in 1789, which was seen as a symbol of the uprising of the modern nation, and of the reconciliation of all the French inside the constitutional monarchy which preceded the First Republic, during the French Revolution. (Thanks, Wikipedia!)

And what better way to celebrate Bastille Day then to shoot portraits of diners wearing chef’s toques and paper moustaches! I had my heart set on baguettes and berets and black-and-white horizontally striped shirts and an Eiffel Tower backdrop, but there’s always next year…

A few selects from the evening can be seen below, and the full set can be seen on Almond’s Facebook page. Merci.