Melina Hammer is a renowned Photographer and Food stylist with over a decade of experience in delivering some of the most exciting pictorial depictions of food. Melina is an award recipient for food styling from the International Association for Culinary Professionals (IACP) and has styled food for notable publications like The New York Times, Eating Well Magazine, amongst others.

A recipe developer and author of the best-selling book Kid Chef, Melina is constantly searching for elemental authenticity in all her works. When she isn’t cooking up a storm or capturing it through the lens of her camera, she is headlining food styling and photography workshops at NY-based International Culinary Center (formerly French Culinary Institute) or the US Academy of Nutrition & Dietetics conference, and so on.

Melina will be at the GTBank Food and Drink Festival on Wednesday, May 1st 2019, to share with the audience her tried and trusted guide to great Food Styling for Photography.

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