With cookbooks flying off shelves (or out of warehouses) these days, it’s crazy to think that food photographers lost work during the pandemic, too. But as magazines stalled as advertising stopped, freelance photographers got nervous. But thankfully for food photographer Ariel Tarr, everyone has to eat. We talked cameras, lenses, styling, some of her most delicious shoots and an upcoming exhibit that peeks insides the homes of strangers, something she shot before COVID, but has an added attraction during these quieter days.

The 5à7 Podcast is a series of happy hour conversations with cool people. They’re based around food, but guests go beyond chefs and restaurant owners to artists, entrepreneurs and other inspiring people you might have heard of. It takes a sneak peak into the homes and lives of interesting people and is based on conversations that revolve around food – with a nod to the Quebec happy hour, aka the 5à7. These are the stories that only seem to come out over a drink with a friend…or by Zoom during COVID-19.

Here’s everything we mentioned on the podcast (mostly in the order we mentioned them):

Ariel’s website: http://www.arieltarr.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/arieltarr/

Sage Mentorship program in Quebec: https://sagementorat.com/

Marie-Fleur St-Pierre’s cookbook that Ariel worked on: https://www.leslibraires.ca/livres/la-cuisine-espagnole-de-marie-fleur-marie-fleur-st-pierre-9782761949149.html

Amie Watson’s Quarantine Cooking e-cookbook: https://www.multiculturiosity.com/quarantine-cooking-e-book/

Cookbook that Ariel was working on that's recently been published: Rôtir by Jean-François Plante http://www.editions-homme.com/rotir/jean-francois-plante/livre/9782761954914

Other cookbooks Ariel has worked on: Le Livre des Piques-Niques by Marie-Joanne Boucher: https://www.renaud-bray.com/Livres_Produit.aspx?id=2189698&def=Livre+des+pique-niques(Le)%2cBOUCHER%2c+MARIE-JOANNE%2c9782924251461

Marie Fleur’s Tapas: http://www.editions-homme.com/tapas-marie-fleur/droits/9782761926706

CHEFMOM: In the Kitchen with Nadia Saputo: https://chefmom.ca/products/in-the-kitchen-with-nadia-cookbook

The cookbook behind Ariel in the video is “Plenty” by Yotam Ottolenghi: https://www.amazon.ca/Plenty-Vibrant-Recipes-Londons-Ottolenghi/dp/1452101248

Pizza Motta: where Ariel buys her pizza dough when she doesn’t make it herself: https://www.pizzamotta.com/

Ariel’s two cameras for shooting:

Canon 5D Mark IV https://www.canon.ca/en/product?name=EOS_5D_Mark_IV&category=/en/products/Cameras/DSLR-Cameras/Professional

And Canon EOS 5 mirrorless: https://www.canon.ca/en/product?name=EOS_R&category=/en/products/Cameras/Mirrorless-Cameras Lenses: 50mm, 100mm, 85mm, 35mm, 40mm

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