I wasn't always a food photographer. Infact, I spent the first 5 years of my professional life working in expat tax, crunching numbers in the corporate world from the same desk, every day. But the truth was I knew that wasnt how I wanted to spend the next 40 years of my working life.

I've always had a love for food and cooking, and knew I wanted to end up working with food in some capacity. I ran my own little cake business for a while, did an internship at a London based bakery, but neither of those things felt right. I didn't like the repetitiveness that came with filling orders.

Life was moving on around me, I got married and needed to find a job (you know, because bills) and I ended up in a great training program to become a tax technician, allowing me to study and get my certification whilst getting paid to work. It was a great job and I loved it in a lot of ways. But it wasn't for me forever.

After moving to Switzerland when I was 22, our whole lives changed. We were in a new country, with new jobs, a new language... a lot had changed! I had been reading a lot of food blogs, and wondering if this could be my creative outlet. So I decided to just give it a shot! I started my food blog in 2015, and quickly developed a love for food photography. Having never picked up a DSLR before 2015, this was not the path I thought starting a food blog would take.

It didn't take me long to start picking up a few photography based client jobs and realise that this is what I'd been looking for my whole career. Every job felt like a challenge, but a great one, and I couldn't stop sucking up information and learning about my camera.

Eventually, in 2017 I started to teach food photography through my (then) website, "That's Sage", and my online courses. I LOVED this so much, and in early 2020, Food Photography Academy was born. So here we are, pull up a chair, get comfy and let's get learning!