Tomato, tomato (...that doesn't really work in print)

This summer I was an art intern for Charleston Magazine, and I got the opportunity to shoot for editorial articles, like this one on a local Charleston chef, Kevin Johnson. The theme for the September issue of the magazine in which this was published was "luxury," but in this economic climate the term was applied in several ways to the luxury of the everyday. In this case, the locally grown tomato.

Chef Johnson prepared a (delicious) BELT sandwich (check out the story and the recipe here) as well as an equally delicious caprese salad. At any rate, it was excellent practice with food photography, and with the great natural lighting and the chef's proposal that we cover a table with all kinds of tomatoes, it was genuinely fun.