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I was having coffee with Mark the art director at Fairfax on a Tuesday morning.
He invited me over to tour the HQ.
I shook hands with the editors of Good Food and she asked if I had any stock shots of dumplings for their cover story.
Knowing that Instagram photos don’t really count, I said no.
While I was leaving the building Mark called and asked if I was available to shoot that afternoon at David’s.
I looked into my bag and saw the Sony A7 with a 35mm lens, remembered I had a meeting at 3pm, and the fact that I hadn’t a clue of the lighting condition at the restaurant.
‘ Yes,’ I said.
‘Can we do it within the next hour though?’
From coffee to dumplings, just like that.

January Epicure cover Dumplings

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Christina Pagliaro

Dear Harvard Wang,

Jess Peacock from Vue de Monde has kindly passed your details onto me in relation to photography for a dish by Shannon Bennett, which will be included in the catalogue for an upcoming QAGOMA exhibition.

The publication is a sort of hybrid ‘exhibition catalogue meets food writing’, and will include photography from 10 renowned chefs from around Australia, including Shannon Bennett.

I did wonder whether you might be interested in this job and what your fee might be? (We’re looking at having all photography due by March 3.) I should also mention right upfront that,as a government organisation, I have a strong suspicion that we won’t be able to afford standard commercial rates. So, if you’re at all interested, I would love to hear from you.

I can be contacted on 07 3831 7301 or this email.

Kind regards
Christina Pagliaro

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