About this episode

Anusha Stewart shares her journey from finance to food photography, influenced by her Sri Lankan heritage and personal experiences during the COVID lockdown.

In this episode, Perrin sits down with Anusha Stewart, a UK-based food photographer who came to the camera through an unlikely path of finance in the City of London, math teaching, and running a group of care homes, before COVID lockdowns gave her the time to finally do something with the one constant in her life: food. Anusha talks about growing up in a Sri Lankan family where dinner meant eight dishes on the table, why food was never just food but something she celebrated with and turned to when things got hard, and how a Nikon for Dummies book during lockdown became the start of a photography career she never planned for. She gets into what her math background taught her about composition, why food pulled her into photography rather than the other way around, and the visual food memoir she is working toward that weaves together her Sri Lankan heritage, her British life, and everything the camera has helped her see along the way. Check out the episode article here: https://greatbigphotographyworld.com/ anusha-stewart Want to support the show? Click here: https://greatbigphotographyworld.com/supporter/ Join our online photography community to interact with photographers just…

People in this episode

Host: Perrin

Guest: Anusha Stewart

Topics covered

• food photography
• Sri Lankan heritage
• creative vision
• personal journey
• COVID impact
• composition in photography

Keywords

• food photography
• Sri Lankan heritage
• Nikon
• COVID lockdown
• creative vision
• composition
• personal journey

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Nikon

Places: Sri Lanka, UK, City of London

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