Ryan Parker photographed Cree chef Shane Chartrand for The Galloping Gourmet, a feature in Edify’s March 2025 issue on his run on Top Chef Canada and his Indigenous cooking.
The story
The Galloping Gourmet
Chartrand, already a familiar name in Edmonton kitchens, competed on Season 11 of Top Chef Canada, cooking with prairie and Indigenous ingredients such as reindeer lichen, elk and bear grease. Afterward he opened Paperbirch, an Indigenous culinary hub in the Old Strathcona Farmers’ Market, and he judged the magazine’s Best Restaurants that year. His cooking has also taken him abroad, including to the COP 27 climate conference in Egypt.
- Magazine
- Edify
- Issue
- March 2025
- Ran as
- The contents page, and the feature across two spreads
- Words
- Breanna Mroczek
- Art direction
- Kim Larson
- Photographs
- Ryan Parker
As printed
The cover, and the pages.
01Edify, March 2025
The frames
The photographs, before the type.
01The photographs
How it got made
The brief, the room, the frame.
Kim’s idea was to play up Shane’s television side: playful, mischievous and some serious. There’s an old tube TV in my studio that I’d had for a while and always wanted to shoot on, and this seemed like the one. I offered it as something for Shane to sit or stand on and sent Kim tests that morning. “That tv is a classic,” she said. We had Shane in front of the camera for under an hour.
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