Delicious Photography
© Néstor Pérez-Molière
Delicious Photography
© Néstor Pérez-Molière
Delicious Photography
© Néstor Pérez-Molière
ONLINE COURSE

Delicious Photography

Dates: Thursdays, May 13–July 8, 2025
Time: 12–2pm (ET)
Sessions: 8 (No class on July 1)
Limited enrollment: 8 students
Fee: $550
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Do you have a passion for both the culinary arts and photography? Bring both together in a single practice and discover how food photography can activate the senses. In this course, students will learn all the ins and outs of food photography in order to make viewers salivate. Through weekly shooting assignments, students will experiment with different types of foods as well as different moments in the process of preparing these delicacies. We will look at the work of professional masters of food photography and discuss what makes it look scrumptious. This course will also dive in on a do-it-yourself approach to lighting to make your plated food shine and glisten.

Throughout the course, students will develop a final project in which they photograph their family or personal recipes to develop into their own cookbook. We will discuss a variety of photographic moments in the process of building a cookbook, from step-by-step photography, mise en place, plated food, and environmental shots.

Please note: This class is intended for photographers who cook or have a cook who would like to collaborate with them during the class.
 
Néstor’s Lightroom Classic course just ended and I can’t say enough about how much he taught us — through both the ease with which he walked us through the many aspects of the program but also his ability to listen and use our images and our questions to deepen and extend the learning. It’s a rare teacher who can include the students’ individual needs into their carefully planned agenda — and he does just that!
—Grace (New York City)
Thank you Nestor, for a fun and illuminating DIY lighting class. I loved your combined free-wheeling “go for it” approach with the gentle but rigorous critiques. I learned a lot about intentionally “sculpting” with light to create mood and content. I also appreciate your willingness to be vulnerable in showing and talking about your personal work, which meant a lot to me. You created a mini-community of sharing and learning. Muchas gracias! 
—Irene (Pennsylvania)
Thanks for a really helpful class! I enjoyed each session — well designed, with the right amount of photo critique and theory — and I feel much more comfortable handling my camera now. You offered great atmosphere in the sessions and provided really useful feedback and practical tips. Crucial for myself: Photography is getting closer and closer to my heart and I'm eager to keep my photography practice going and keep shooting almost daily to improve – and to find my voice as a photographer. Thank you for helping me taking these next steps! Hope we see each other in future classes!
—Stefan (Vienna)


Néstor Pérez-Molière
Néstor Pérez-Molière

Néstor Pérez-Molière was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and currently resides in the Bronx, New York. His art entails a process of self-discovery; a series of confessionals revealing private conflicts; hoping towards catharsis. Through this cathartic process he hopes to connect with the viewer’s struggles and depathologize negative feelings so that they can be seen as a source for political action rather than its antithesis. Néstor exposes mental health issues like depression, dysmorphia, food addictions, and loneliness: describing their mechanisms, scrutinizing their origins, and illuminating the impossibility of fixing them. His practice mainly takes place in the realm of photography but has also incorporated performance, drawing, video, installation, and intaglio techniques into his works.

He received an MFA from Hunter College and holds a BSc in Botany. He was part of EmergeNYC 2023, Artist in the Marketplace 2017, and Creative Capital’s Taller 2019 mentorship programs, and was included in The Bronx Museum of the Arts Fourth Biennial. He has exhibited at the Museo de las Américas, the Clemente Soto Vélez, Bronx Art Space, Longwood Gallery, and the Liga de Estudiantes de Artes de San Juan, Puerto Rico. In 2023 he was a resident at Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Governors Island Arts Center and Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts residencies. Interested in becoming an educator, he teaches, and has taught, digital and darkroom photography, as well as media literacy at the International Center of Photography, Parsons School of Design, Art Academy of Cincinnati, Fairleigh Dickinson University, The Point CDC, and StrudelmediaLive.

Néstor teaches lighting for still life, Lightroom, and more for StrudelmediaLive.