Evan Sung on Modern Food Photography

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4.4 • 902 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2016

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Evan Sung didn’t think he’d be a photographer — let alone one of the most sought-after food photographers in the country. Armed with an undergrad degree in psychology and an insatiable curiosity about people and the world, Sung set out to tell the most honest visual stories he could, his success at which landed him on the pages of 35 cookbooks (shooting with the likes of chefs Paul Liebrandt and Marc Forgone) and a myriad of publications. Sung visited the Eater Upsell studios to talk LA’s incredible light, his favorite shots of all time, and the unsung hero of the food photography world: the prop stylist. But first, Helen tells Greg about a secret Las Vegas restaurant. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:14.0	On today's episode of The Eater Upsell,
0:19.1	Greg and I are talking with Evan Sung,
0:21.1	a superstar food photographer whose work you've seen in the pages of the New York Times and Vogue and the most beautifully shot cookbooks that have landed on bookshelves in the last couple of years.
0:31.0	It's going to be a really, really illuminating conversation.
0:34.0	I learned a ton about food photography.
0:36.0	I have no doubt you will too.
0:38.0	Stick around.
0:42.0	Greg, have you ever been to Las Vegas? I have been to Las Vegas Helen I went once as a
0:45.9	lad and don't really remember very much of it and I went once as an older lad in
0:50.2	college and ate fat burgers and gambled away 40 bucks and then had nothing to do.
0:56.0	If all you ate were fat burgers and all you spent was 40 bucks, they're pretty good, you have not been to the place that I am about to tell you about, which is blowing my mind.
1:04.1	I am completely obsessed with this restaurant right now.
1:06.9	Ask me what this restaurant is called.
1:08.3	What is this fabulous Las Vegas restaurant called Helen?
1:11.3	Greg, it doesn't have a name.
1:13.5	What?
1:14.1	This is crazy.
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