St. Louis Taste Makers

I have a fascination with the food culture, which is one of the reasons I jumped at the chance to photograph some of the influential people in the St. Louis food scene for a feature in Feast Magazine. As I mentioned in a previous post, one of the people that I photographed for this project was mayor of St. Louis, Francis G. Slay. I also photographed chefs, business owners, architects and sommeliers. I love doing studio portraiture, and this project ties right into my focus on the people who live, breathe, and eat the food industry.

Here are a few of the local food crew I photographed back in December.

David Wolfe, co-founder of Urban Chestnut Brewing Co. in St. Louis, MO. Photographs by Jonathan Gayman

Maddie Earnest, co-owner of Local Harvest Grocery, Cafe and Catering in St. Louis, MO. Photographs by Jonathan Gayman.

John Perkins, chef and owner of entre in St. Louis, MO. Photograph by Jonathan Gayman.

Gerard Craft, chef and owner of Craft Restaurants, Ltd in St. Louis, MO. Craft's restaurants include Niche, Brasserie by Niche, and Taste. Photograph by Jonathan Gayman

Josh Ferguson, co-owner of Kaldi's Coffee Roasting Co. in St. Louis, MO. Photographs by Jonathan Gayman.

You can read interviews of these and the other Tastemakers over at Feast Magazine’s website. Very interesting and well worth the read.

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