Small Batch Breads cookbook cover reveal!

I’m so excited to share the cover of Small Batch Breads, a cookbook that I photographed by debut author, Rebecca Eisenberg, aka the Practical Kitchen! I’ve been dreaming of photographing a cookbook for a LONG time and here she is - available for pre-order now. I’m so honored to have been chosen to work on this project with such a stellar creative team. I can’t wait to share more images soon!

Photography Linda Campos

Photography assistant/digitech Karraline Streifel

Food Styling Joy Howard

Food Styling Assistant Sasha Coleman

Prop Styling Kaylei McGaw

Art Direction Betsy Stromberg, Ten Speed

Book Design Francesca Truman Ten Speed

New work for Sombra Eatery & Lounge

New work for Sombra Eatery & Lounge in East Greenwich, Rhode Island! 🌮🍸

 Photography: Linda Campos

Photo Assist: Dan Orlow

Food Styling: Sheila Jarnes

Rubiners Cheesemongers for the B Magazine 🧀

I had the opportunity to photograph Matt and Julie Rubiner of Rubiners Cheesemongers in Great Barrington, MA for the High Summer issue of The B Magazine! Together with writer Ann Wolkwein, we took great pleasure in exploring their magical world of cheese. I hope you enjoy these images as much as I enjoyed creating them.

Fresh new work in The New York Times! 📰

The New York Times recently published “The 25 Best Restaurants in Boston Right Now” and I was fortunate enough to land an assignment to photograph four of them. Below are some of the images that made it into the NYT as well as some outtakes that didn't make it. I had the best time photographing this assignment and wow, what an honor to see my byline in the paper! I hope you enjoy these images. 

Mings Seafood in Quincy, MA.

Mings Seafood in Quincy, MA.

Belle Isle Seafood in Winthrop, MA.

Belle Isle Seafood in Winthrop, MA.

Belle Isle Seafood in Winthrop, MA.

The Eaves in Somerville, MA.

The Eaves in Somerville, MA.

The Eaves in Somerville, MA.

Banh mi ba le

Banh mi ba le

Fresh new work in the Spring Issue of Edible Boston 🥯

Today I’m sharing some new work that is out in the spring issue of Edible Boston magazine. I had the privilege of shooting the cover image as part of a bagel feature assignment. Below are a few images that I shot of the wildly popular bagel pop-up, Brick Street Bagels. Enjoy! 🥯

Jordan Renouf of Brick Street Bagels.

A bagel sandwich at Little Donkey featuring Brick Street Bagels.

Fresh new work from O Ya 🍣

The upcoming holiday season has me looking forward to dining in cozy restaurants like this one that I photographed for the September issue of Boston Magazine. 

It was such a pleasure photographing O Ya and their beautiful menu of expertly crafted dishes like: kombu-cured mackerel nigiri, wagyu dumplings and cooked custard with caviar.  I hope that you enjoy these images and that you too have the opportunity to experience O Ya one day.

Happy November!

Linda

P. S. I'm off to Japan for a couple of weeks in November. I can't wait to share my journey through Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka soon! If you have an assignment in mind, feel free to reach out. 

Photography: Linda Campos

Restaurant: O Ya

Photographed for: Boston Magazine

Photo Editor: Mona Miri

Olive magic 🫒

Earlier this summer I met up with the very talented food stylist, Joy Howard, for a personal shoot at her house in Western Massachusetts. After deciding on an olive theme, a mood board was pulled together and we went to work. Inspired by the vibrant and colorful packaging of these snacking olives, we gravitated towards surfaces and props that complimented the brand colors and that harmonized with the olive dishes and drinks. We had so much fun creating these images, and I hope that they brighten your day.

Cheers!

Linda

Photography: Linda Campos

Food and prop styling: Joy Howard

Surfaces provided by: Ann Lewis

Freestyle Olives provided by: Pulp + Wire

Seafood Summer

Nothing says summer in New England like a seafood boiI! My team and I had so much fun photographing PrimeFish Seafood Co.’s Signature Boxes at their headquarters in North Kingstown, Rhode Island. Their sustainably-sourced kits deliver fresh seafood with every ingredient needed to create a special meal to share with friends. There’s nothing better than collaborating with a team of like-minded creatives like we had on this shoot. Thank you to the founder, Jake Dellagrotta, our food stylist, Chantal Lambeth and and my assistant, Emily Walls for making this shoot a success!

I hope that these images get you excited for summer entertaining and seafood boils with your favorite people.

Happy summer!

Linda

Client: PrimeFish Seafood Co.

Food styling and prop styling: Chantal Lambeth

Photo Assistant: Emily Walls

A sweet photo shoot: Valentine’s Day cupcakes with Weesh Bakeshop

Inspired by The Beautiful Baked Goods Issue of Cherry Bombe Magazine, and an urge to collaborate with bakers in my community, I spent an afternoon photographing the owner of Weesh Bake Shop in Roslindale, MA. Elyse bakes up colorful, whimsical cakes, cupcakes, weeshtarts and we had the best time collaborating on this shoot. With Valentines day around the corner, we decided to focus on funfetti cupcakes with lots of fun frosting designs in our favorite shades of pink. I hope that you enjoy these images! 

Cheers,

Linda

Sprinkles by Fancy Sprinkles and Sweetapolita

Cupcakes and cake by: Elyse Purbaugh, owner and baker of Weesh Bake Shop.

A long weekend in Mexico City

A couple of months ago I traveled to Mexico City with my friend Nicole Beck for a long weekend. Nicole and I met earlier this year at this photography workshop in Oaxaca, Mexico and became fast friends! We kept in touch after the workshop and immediately began plotting a photo trip together. After only a few days of texting back and forth we settled on Mexico City. I hadn’t been to Mexico City since 2002, when it was referred to as D.F. (Distrito Federal), and Nicole had never been so we were excited to eat and shoot our way through the city.

Planning a trip with another food photographer was really fun. Between the two of us we had a very long list of where to eat and what to do from our friends in the food and travel industries. We narrowed it down to the places that repeatedly came up across all of the recommendations that we received and threw in a few spontaneous ones during the trip. Mexico City is a massively huge city so this list is in no way complete or exhaustive but I wanted to share where we stayed, where we ate and what we did during our time in CDMX.

Photo by Nicole Beck. I love this pink wall at Casa Luis Barragan

No trip to Mexico City is complete without a dinner reservation at Pujol. I’ve wanted to eat here since watching the 2nd season of The Chef’s Table (episode 4) with Enrique Olvera. He’s arguably Mexico’s biggest celebrity chef so we didn’t want to miss an opportunity to eat here. We opted for the tasting menu which lasted a little over 3 hours long and it was quite the experience. The highlight of the meal was of course the mole madre which had been going for 1578 days. Delicioso! Thank you to the amazing team at Pujol for the incredible meal and hospitality!

Pujol!

We also got to check out Enrique Olvera’s newest spot in CDMX, Molino “El Pujol”. This neighborhood molino located in the Condesa is casual, more affordable and a wonderful way to sample the flavors of Pujol on a budget. You can purchase tortillas, heirloom maiz from Oaxaca and even grab tamales to go. We came back the next morning for a cafe de olla and some tortillas for the plane ride home. The staff was super friendly and I’m dying for an aqua de maiz right now! Order anything and everything.

In between meals we ventured to a few museums and of course we had to visit some mercados. We spent a morning at the Museo Frida Kahlo in Coyoacan then rushed over to the Casa Luis Barragan for a tour. If you plan to visit the Frida Kahlo museum, be sure to buy tickets well in advance and arrive with plenty of time before your designated tour time. Also, if you’d like to take photos in the museum you’ll need to pay extra at the entrance for a photo pass. The museum was very crowded but well worth it! The same goes for Casa Luis Barragan, reserve your tickets in well in advance because it sells out.

A friend we made while waiting in line to enter Museo Frida Kahlo.

We ate breakfast twice at Lalo because it was very close to our airbnb and because it was really tasty. I may have filled my carry on with ceramics from their retail wall too! If you’re into dogs like me, there’s some really good dog watching at Lalo as well as at our other favorite morning spot, Panaderia Rosetta. Two words, roll de guayaba. Okay that was three words but you get the point. The pastries at Panaderia Rosetta rival the ones I’ve had in Paris so pack your stretchy pants and spanx and enjoy the fabulous carbs!

Casa Luis Barragan

Are you hungry yet? Lastly, I have to mention the meal that we had at Contramar. I wasn’t sure if Contramar would live up to the hype but it did. We had so many people recommend lunch here and everyone couldn’t stop talking about the tuna tostadas. I’m happy to report that the hype is real and that we could have eaten several orders of the tuna tostadas! Order with abandon and enjoy! I’d go back in a heartbeat.

Mexico City has tons of wonderful museums, incredible pyramids and archeological sites and a food culture too vast to experience in a long weekend but I hope to be back again soon to explore more. We didn’t make it to many of the more popular attractions this time because I was recovering from bronchitis on this trip and just didn't have the energy and stamina to do all the things but I know I’ll be back soon.

Stay:

Historico Central near the Zocalo. This is a modern and clean hotel in an excellent location for exploring the heart of the city.

This Airbnb near the Condesa (Save $40 on your first Airbnb with this code) This was a very comfortable airbnb with a door man in a good location.

Eat:

Contramar

Pujol

Pasillo de Humo

Molino “El Pujol”

Lalo

Panaderia Rosetta

Lardo

Fonda Mayora

Breakfast at El Cardinal

Do:

Climb to the top of Torre Latinoamerica for panoramic views of the city

Museo Frida Kahlo

Casa Luis Barragan

Mercado el 100

Mercado Coyoacan

Anthropology Museum

Xochimilco

Teotihuacan

Tortillas on the comal at Mercado el 100

Is Mexico City a destination you’d like to travel to? Do you have a favorite restaurant or market to share? Comment below! I’d love to hear from you. Thank you so much for visiting and I hope you enjoyed!

Oaxaca, Mexico with This is the Wanderlust

Last month I had the opportunity to return to one of my favorite places, Oaxaca, Mexico, for a week long photography expedition with Andrea Gentl and Martin Hyers of Gentl & Hyers. Andrea is one of my favorite photographers and when I saw this trip to Oaxaca over on the This is the Wanderlust site, I hoped and dreamed of attending this workshop. A couple of days before the workshop began I reached out to Andrea and asked if there was still space available to attend. As soon as I heard back that there was still space available, I booked my ticket and off I went to Oaxaca! 

I took the red-eye from Boston to Mexico City, then an early morning flight to Oaxaca which worked out perfectly. I arrived at around 8 am and had that day to rest up before the workshop started that evening. All of the workshop attendees stayed at El Diablo y la Sandia (Boca del Monte, there are two), a sweet little B & B in the heart of Oaxaca City. That evening we met up with everyone and got our assignment for the week. We were on a travel story and our job was to have 10-15 photos by the end of the week that told a story. Within each day we were asked to create micro stories as well. 

It was an action packed week with early mornings and late nights. We visited gorgeous churches, studied light, shot portraits, met artisans and ate some incredible meals. Our itinerary left little to no free time but I was happy to be out shooting all day every day. What a dream to have had this opportunity! I hope you enjoy the photos below. :)

Blue corn tortillas at Criollo hot off of the comal.

Oaxaca City Streets.

Los Mariachis

Maiz criollo

Nightfall at the Hacienda

Fruta from the Tlacolula Market.

Gloria tending the fire for the comal in her kitchen.

Sombrero

Roses at the mercado

Entry way at Criollo

Sal de gusano on the metate

Vibrant Oaxaca colors

Cochineal on the metate being ground for natural dyeing.

A loom in Teotitlan del Valle.

View from the palenque.

Vendors at the Tlacolula Market.

Handmade beeswax candles.

There are so many more photos but I wanted to get a recap up and I'll be adding a print shop to the website soon if you're interested in purchasing any of these as prints! I can't wait to return to Oaxaca again soon. Thank you Andrea, Marty, Alex, Frankie, Pococapoco and Mezcouting for an amazing week!

Have you been to Oaxaca, Mexico before? Is it on your list? Leave a comment below. I'd love to hear from you!