Food Styling 101 Structure


Introduction to Food Styling workshop,

Take your first steps in the food styling world. This workshop is designed carefully to get you on track by helping you start creating your portfolio with your first professional shots.

Foodstyling is more of a technique than art, you will get to learn about both sides and experiment your learning by practicing with a professional food photographer.

The workshop is designed to be constructive and let you get the maximum of the learning goals.


What is food styling?

Storytelling in food styling

Intro to art direction

What to show in your dish & what not to show.

Primers on culinary literacy

Props in the food styling job

The food stylist toolbox

Prepping food for the styling job

Cooking food for the styling job

About dressing food up to the camera

Styling key dishes & testing them infront of the camera (demonstration)

Practicing styling key dishes & shooting them infront of the camera. (Supervised work)

Real shoot-like setup, with professional photography (real exercise)

Chance to attend at least 5 real proper shoots as an assistant which includes editorial, social media, video and TVC shoots. Throughout these shoots you get to master some key practices on different sets.


Note: the workshop is one-on-one, 5 Full days

For fees, booking, paying with installments kindly dm on the Instagram (@theFoodStylist.me) to receive a payment link

Food Styling 101 Round 4 (July 2022)

Held at TheFoodStylist.me studio with 4 Participants, and that was the styling output of the participants. Photography by Doaa Hamza.

Food Styling 101 Round 3 (September 2021)

Held at Monapetit Culinary Academy with 7 Participants, and that was the styling output of the participants. Photography by Doaa Hamza.

Food Styling 101 Round 2 (July 2021)

Held at Monapetit Culinary Academy with 7 Participants, and that was the styling output of the participants. Photography by Doaa Hamza.

Food Styling 101 Round 1 (November 2020)

Held at Monapetit Culinary Academy with 14 Participants, and that was the styling output of the participants. Photography by Fares Zaitoun.