Ryan Parker photographed chef Davina Moraiko, farmer Tam Andersen and food supplier Rob Tryon for The Taste Makers, a feature in Avenue’s March 2019 issue, with Tryon also on the contents page.
The story
The Taste Makers
The Taste Makers profiled three people changing the way Edmonton eats. Davina Moraiko, chef de cuisine at Rge Rd, builds her cooking around the whole animal and took gold at the 2018 Great Kitchen Party with a blood sausage dish. Tam Andersen has run Prairie Gardens near Bon Accord for 25 years; working with chefs turned a farm once known for corn mazes into a restaurant supplier and an agritourism destination. Rob Tryon, of Effing Seafoods, built his business on relationships with fishermen and teaches landlocked Albertans about seafood at markets and his St. Albert store.
- Magazine
- Avenue
- Issue
- March 2019
- Ran as
- The contents page, and three single pages, one for each person
- Words
- Adrianna MacPherson, Steven Sandor, Cory Schachtel
- Art direction
- Kim Larson
- Photographs
- Ryan Parker
As printed
The cover, and the pages.
01Avenue, March 2019
The frames
The photographs, before the type.
01The photographs
How it got made
The brief, the room, the frame.
This was my first shoot for Avenue, and one that had been on my list of things I wanted to do. Kim had brought me on for a couple of Leap shoots before it. The rest of the Best Restaurants issue was shot on location, so for these three she wanted the studio, with a pattern tied to each person’s work: vegetables for Tam, fish for Rob and kitchen tools for Davina.
Kim had the patterns printed at three and a half by four feet, and my wife, who’d worked at a framing shop, helped me mount them on foam core so they’d hang flat and float. When they washed out against white I tried colour behind them: olive for the vegetables, sky blue for the fish and black for Davina, who was in her chef’s whites.
Not long after, we went for dinner at Rge Rd. Davina came out to say hi, and I felt like a rock star. The food was amazing.
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