Lisa Golden Schroeder
Instructor Lisa Golden Schroeder, a veteran food stylist with 26 years experience in the food business, teaches Food Styling 101 and Marketing & Self-Promotion for Food Stylists. Lisa is Director of the Food Styling courses on Photo Styling Workshops and is currently developing advanced courses.
A published cookbook author, culinary consultant, and educator, Lisa holds a degree in Nutrition and Food Science/Journalism from the University of Arizona and an advanced culinary diploma from La VarenneEcole de Cuisine in France.
As one of the original organizers of the Food on Film® food photography seminars in Minneapolis, Minnesota, she’s been an avid and longtime supporter of food styling education. She currently co-chairs the programming for the innovative International Conference on Food Styling & Photography at Boston University, and is the former chair of the Food Photographers & Stylists special interest section of the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP). She also helped establish the new food photography special interest group within the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP).
In addition to teaching her styling skills, Lisa still provides food styling for advertising, packaging, and cookbooks and magazines for a wide range of clients, including General Mills, Pillsbury, Target Corporation, Better Homes & Gardens, Reader’s Digest, Simplicious Corporation, Land O’ Lakes, Smucker’s, and Tyson Foods.
Lisa recognizes the need for an on-going forum for food stylists and food photographers to share information, get advice, learn about techniques, and generally have a place to go where the unique needs of food photography professionals are understood—as well as provide a much-needed source of information for those interested in the business.
Visit Lisa's web site, Foodesigns.com, for the best, most accurate, and up-to-date information about the world of food styling. You also can subscribe to The Tweezer Times™, an online magazine focused on relevant issues for professional food stylists and photographers. |
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Debbie Wahl
For more than 20 years, Debbie Wahl has been working as a food stylist, and now Photo Styling Workshops is pleased to have her on board as an instructor of our popular Food Styling 101 course.
Debbie’s expertly styled food photographs have been featured in print advertising, food packaging, and on television and film, for clients including Campbell's Soups, Coca-Cola, Friendly’s Restaurants, Perdue, Pizza Hut, McCormick Spice Co., and Stouffer Foods.
In addition to her proficiency in food preparation and her flair for food styling, Debbie brings other essential assets to the table. Her patience and persistence has ensured Debbie’s success from smoothly styling a picnic meal in midsummer in a stifling sailboat galley for Bon Appetit Magazine to preparing 600-pounds-worth of turkey dinners for the Barry Levinson film Avalon. And, certainly, it is Debbie’s energy, professionalism and great sense of humor that allows her to seamlessly blend with a myriad of photographers, art and set directors and even the occasional celebrity chef.
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Along with her extensive experience in food styling, Debbie has provided a wide range of services, including media tour support, recipe development, recipe contest coordinating, focus group supervising and menu planning and implementation, to a full spectrum of clients, from food manufacturers and trade associations to cookbook publishers and restaurant-industry leaders.
Debbie was graduated cum laude from Ohio University with a Bachelor of Science degree in commercial foods and a minor in communications.
Kim Maxwell
Kim Maxwell, our newest instructor, is the author of the book, “Career Diary of a Fashion Stylist: thirty days behind the scenes with a professional”. The book is an intimate look at a month in the life of a freelance fashion stylist. As a stylist in the fashion and entertainment industry, Kim describes how she entered the field and details of her current journey to build a reputation as a respected and recognized fashion professional in a highly competitive field. This is a must-have reference guide for anyone wanting to pursue a career as a fashion stylist in the fashion and entertainment industry.
Kim’s drive, along with her passion, natural talent, and eye for style and trends come easy to this native of Tennessee who has studied fashion since high school and received a B.A. in Fashion, Marketing, and Advertising from Middle Tennessee State University. Kim now is based in Atlanta where she freelances and has opened her own fashion styling and image consulting company, STYLESbyMAXX.
With boundless creative energy, STYLESbyMAXX continues to build relationships with designer showrooms, exclusive boutiques, photographers, record labels, modeling agencies, and the entertainment industry. With Kim’s professional, fresh, upbeat, down-to-earth and real personality, along with her creativity and knowledge of the fashion industry, STYLESbyMAXX is becoming the most sought after fashion styling and image consulting company in the industry.
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Kim describes the styles she creates with one word “JAZZY.” Others describe her style as classic, diverse, and hip, while incorporating the latest trends with a slight edge. “I like to make my clients feel comfortable in what they wear and how they appear to the public, even if it’s out of the ordinary because Image is Everything, in this industry. I create styles that are innovative, creative, hip, and trendy which allow clients to feel and be themselves. It’s all about you having that swagger and you wearing the clothes, not the clothes wearing you,” Kim says.
Pete Romfh
Co-instructor of Style It & Shoot It and technical consultant for our "Gallery" pages, Pete is a semi-retired Telecommunications Engineer living in Houston, Texas. He has been designing, creating, administering, and managing telecommunications systems for over 30 years. He’s also been married to Peggy for 39 years and one of their two children has blessed them with two wonderful grandchildren.
Pete has been doing photography for over 50 years, starting around age 12 with a Brownie box camera. Along the way he has done commercial work and photojournalism, including being a “war correspondent” during the Vietnam era. The past 10 years he has taken an interest in food photography and has won a few awards in that field.
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His interest in food started primarily from a consumption standpoint. He enjoyed trying dishes as he traveled around the globe both domestically and internationally. About 15 years ago he started taking a more serious interest in the preparation and presentation aspects as well. His kids recently memorialized some of the early learning experiences with an apron saying, “Dad’s cooking. Dinner will be ready when the smoke alarm sounds!” Things have gotten much better as he has attended numerous cooking classes and practiced better techniques.
Currently, Pete is working on a cookbook with the theme, “Diabetics Don’t Eat Boring Food!” Based on his learning experiences as a diabetic and gourmet cook, the book will feature recipes he has created, techniques and suggestions, and will be richly illustrated with his photos.
He’s been said to have a wicked sense of humor and an acerbic wit. But he’s really just an old Grandpa who chimes in with what he really thinks from time to time.
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