Studio Charleston · nationally active

One eye.
Three crafts.

Commercial photography and creative direction for food, hospitality, and lifestyle brands. A steady hand across the whole project.

Photography
Food, hospitality, lifestyle
Direction
Voice, concept, systems
Together
The eye across the whole project
Based
Charleston, South Carolina
Still life photography for The Wren Home
Still life · The Wren Home
Record

James Beard Foundation · nominated for visual storytelling.
Published nationally in food, hospitality, and lifestyle.

00 · Thesis

The eye
comes first.

A disciplined temperament paired with a poet's attention.

Nearly two decades behind a camera taught me what the eye does before the tool touches anything. What I make now begins there. Photography, creative direction, and the two together. Different outputs, one practice.

Good work refuses to look assembled. It is made by someone who has looked at enough to know what to leave out.

01 · Stories

Selected work.

Steam rising from a bowl of pho as broth is ladled in, dark ground
PhoKing Food · Editorial
Fashion editorial against a lattice shadow wall for Escapada resort wear
Escapada Lifestyle · Fashion
Handmade chef knives with family photographs, maps, and heritage objects
Middleton Made Knives Brand · Heritage
Cocktails on a marble table in dappled sun at The Dewberry Charleston
The Dewberry Hospitality · Hotel
Hand spooning sauce over steak on a toile plate in a red booth
Fancypants Food · Restaurant
Dutch-master still life with bread, radicchio, and decanter for Juliska
Juliska, Still Life Brand · Editorial

Andrew sees what the rest of us are not yet looking at, then makes sure we all end up seeing it.

Katharine Ames · Indigo Road Hospitality
02 · Approach

One practice.
Three ways in.

On method

The eye is the practice. Modern tools accelerate the work. They do not decide it.

01 · Photography

The commercial frame.

The anchor of the practice. Food, hospitality, lifestyle. Campaigns, editorial, brand libraries.

  • Campaign photography
  • Editorial features
  • Brand content libraries
  • On-location and studio
Begin a project
02 · Creative Direction

The eye, applied to brand.

Voice, concept, and visual systems for brands that refuse to look templated.

  • Brand direction
  • Campaign concept and art direction
  • Visual systems
  • Creative consulting
Begin a project
03 · Together

One partner, whole project.

For brands who want a single creative partner across photography and direction. See Adelaide below.

  • End-to-end creative
  • Campaign direction + shoot
  • Brand launch and relaunch
  • Digital product collaboration
Begin a project
Selective. A few engagements a year.
For the work worth doing right.
03 · Advisory

Retained
Advisory.

The eye, kept close.

Some brands need a senior creative voice in the room, not hired for one job and gone by next quarter. A monthly engagement across direction, audit, and craft. Feedback when the next decision actually matters. Recommendations on vendors, talent, and next moves. Shoots when shoots are the right answer.

Three-month minimum. Most engagements run twelve.

Who it's for
  • Founders building a brand with a single creative voice
  • CMOs without a full-time creative director
  • Hospitality groups carrying visual language across properties
Begin a conversation
04 · In practice

Adelaide.
A worked example.

Adelaide began as something I made for my daughter.

A daily practice for attention, built when the world was still completely new to her. Three short rituals: Presence, Play, Purpose. A woodblock scene that reveals itself over ten days, one layer at a time.

No streaks. No notifications. No points to chase. A one-time purchase, because attention shouldn't come with a subscription.

Users do not earn points. They earn sight.

Role Founder and creative direction
Category Attention, quietly
Explore Adelaide
Japanese woodblock-inspired illustration of a lotus pond with water lilies Adelaide app: Scene screen with cherry blossoms over water Adelaide app: Home screen showing Presence, Play, and Purpose
05 · Record

The relationships hold up.

A partial list
Commercial & Hospitality

Anheuser‑Busch InBev·Marriott International·The Dewberry·Indigo Road Hospitality·Hall Management Group·SSP America·IBM·Juliska·Mellow Mushroom·Tears of Llorona·Ceritas·Weefarer·Tuckernuck·Middleton Made Knives

Editorial

Garden & Gun·The Wall Street Journal·The New York Times·Condé Nast·Condé Nast Traveler·Food & Wine·Architectural Digest

Recognition
  • James Beard Foundation nominee, visual storytelling
  • Stocksy United contributing photographer

Let's see
what we do
next.

Studio
Charleston, SC
Working nationally
By appointment
Engagements
Commercial photography.
Creative direction.
Retained advisory.