Grant Cornett

Photographer Cornett lives 
by a lake in upstate New York with his two great loves: 
a beautiful painter and a standard poodle. He has shot for Esquire, The New Yorker, Gastronomica and Coca Cola, among others. You can get a glimpse of his life’s goings on 
at thelivest1.com. See his work at grantcornett.com.

Favorite movie food moment: Monkey brains in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

Celia Ellenberg

Currently the senior beauty editor at Style.com, Ellenberg has held staff positions at Nylon, T: The New York Times Style Magazine and Jane. 
The Brooklyn-based writer 
and editor also contributes 
to New York, Lula and Canada’s Fashion magazine.

Favorite movie food moment: The chocolate cream pie incident in Overboard, where the twins put superglue on the back of the dessert plates and Goldie’s hands get stuck when she tries to serve it! It’s what broke her in the movie—and also allowed her start falling in love with Kurt.

Gentl and Hyers

Partners in photography and life, Andrea Gentl and Martin Hyers met while students at 
the Parsons School of Design. Focused on food, travel, interiors and portraits, 
clients include Condé Nast Traveler, Bergdorf Goodman, and Grey Goose and they’ve picked up a number of SPD awards. Gentl also shoots 
and writes the blog hungryghostfoodandtravel.com. See the couple’s work 
at gentlandhyers.com.

Favorite movie food moment: Joe Pesci questioning a witness about how to make grits in My Cousin Vinny (Gentl) and Glenn throwing M&Ms 
at his son to show how fast he is in Raising Arizona (Hyers).

Randy Grskovic

The Toronto-based 
collage artist and curator 
is the former owner of 
experimental galleries 
The Age of Info(rmation), 
Cutty Contemporary, and Good Luck. Nowadays 
he shows and curates exhibitions in galleries 
across Canada. See his 
work at randygrkovic.com.

Favorite movie food moment: The ending 
of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

Beth Hoeckel

The Baltimore-born artist, earned a degree from the prestigious The School of 
the Art Institute of Chicago where she studied painting, printmaking and photography; her medium of choice nowadays is mixed media painting and collage. Hoeckel has also lent her talents to a number of bands (album art) and magazines, like Bust, GOOD, Lucky Peach and Rookie, where she is the 
staff illustrator. See her work 
at bethhoeckel.com.

Favorite movie food moment: The scene at 
Jack Rabbit Slim’s in 
Pulp Fiction—“God damn that’s a pretty fucking good milkshake.”

Johnny Miller

Originally from Lawrence, Kansas, Miller came to New York to study photography at Parsons; after graduation he went on to assist Mary Ellen Mark. Nowadays Miller’s clients include Target, Chase, Martha Stewart, Dwell Studio, Field + Stream and Williams-Sonoma, and his work is part of the permanent collection 
at The New York Historical Society. Miller is also the co-author of Coney Island (Trans Photographic Press). See his work at johnny-miller.com.

Favorite movie food moment: The live fish and chips scene in A Fish Called Wanda.

Keirnan Monaghan

The Brooklyn-based, New 
York City-raised photographer decided on his chosen craft early on. As a young boy, Monaghan could be found 
late at night at the bodega on the corner of 35th and Third Ave perusing the magazines 
on display. It was while paging through copies of Hit Parader and Circus that he first considered his passion for photography. See his work 
at keirnanmonaghan.com.

Favorite movie food 
moment: The entire movie, 
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover.

Jenny Mörtsell

The Stockholm native has 
been drawing since she was 
a child; she and her sister would create illustrated 
horse comic books to sell 
at the local supermarket. 
Mörtsell studied printmaking 
and graphic design, and 
was headed for a career 
in fashion magazines when 
she re-discovered her love 
of drawing. Now a full-time New York-based illustrator, 
her work has appeared in Nylon and Flaunt. See her work at jennysportfolio.com.

Favorite movie food moment: The “I can’t 
stand people” bar scene in Barfly with Mickey Rourke 
and Faye Dunaway.

Marcus Nilsson

Born in Malmö, Sweden, Nilsson moved to New York 
for art school. After working 
as a chef, he decided
to pursue a degree in photography. Since 2006, when Nilsson first combined 
his passions, making food 
his subject, his client list has grown to include Bon Appétit, Departures, New York, 
Travel + Leisure, Swallow, and The New York Times Magazine. When he’s not shooting the avid wine collector enjoys throwing dinner parties in his East Williamsburg digs. See 
his work at marcusnilsson.com.

Favorite movie food moment: Lemmy Kilmister 
of Motörhead cooking chips 
in the documentary Lemmy.

Maggie Ruggiero

Gather’s co-recipe editor 
and food stylist entered the gastronomical world after selling her East Village bar and using the proceeds to attend culinary school. She logged time in the kitchens of 
a number of the city’s most esteemed restaurants before shifting her focus to food styling and recipe development. Simply put, she lives to style food for print and video and cook. Those potatoes modeled with a foot in the Hitchcock chapter? They were later 
baked and served to unsuspecting friends. See her work at maggieruggiero.com.

Favorite movie food moment: The Thanksgiving meal in Pieces of April.

Molly Shuster

Gather’s co-recipe editor 
Shuster started off her 
career in publishing at Harper 
Collins before changing courses completely to attend the Institute of Culinary Education. Since earning her degree she has worked as 
a freelance food stylist and recipe developer, dividing 
her time between New York and Boston. See her work 
at mollyshuster.com.

Favorite movie food moment: The montage in Amélie of her favorite things, including the feeling of sticking her hand into a sack of 
split peas, and the sound of cracking the hard caramel top of crème brûlée with a spoon.

Susan Spungen

The longtime New York-
based food stylist’s work can be appreciated in both print—
she is a regular contributor to 
Bon Appétit, Food & Wine, 
O and More magazine—and on screen: she is responsible for the dishes in major movies like Julie & Julia and Eat, 
Pray, Love. Spungen is also 
an accomplished cookbook author; her third effort, 
What’s a Hostess to Do? is out in May 2013 from Artisan. See her work at susanspungen.com.

Favorite movie food moment: The big reveal of 
the tarte Tatin in Julie & Julia.

Martyn Thompson

The Australia-born, New York-
based image maker started 
out creating avant-garde, glam rock-influenced clothes before deciding to document them instead. Thompson worked 
as a fashion photographer in Paris, then moved to London and into the world of interiors. He is a founder of “the Tree”, 
a New York art collective, 
has exhibited extensively, and contributes to Architectural Digest, W, The New York 
Times Magazine and British Vogue. His most recent 
book on beautiful spaces 
is Interiors (Hardie Grant). 
See his work (and sign 
up for his newsletter) at martynthompsonstudio.
com/blog.

Favorite movie food moment: Bette Davis in 
All About Eve; the party scene where she, martini in hand, says “I think it’s gonna be a bumpy night” is as high camp as you can get. Fabulous.

Theo Vamvounakis

Canada-born, Brooklyn-
based Vamvounakis studied photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology before embarking on a career 
as a prop stylist. Her clients include American Express, Anthropologie, West Elm, 
Estée Lauder and Bon Appétit.

Favorite movie food moment: There may not be any food or drink, but I love 
the dancing in the café scene in Band of Outsiders.

And also…

Alia Akkam, Lara Belkin, April Bloomfield, Heather Christine Brown, 
Sara Cardace, Cameron Crowe, David Curtin, Andrea Cusick, 
Janine Desiderio, Charlotte Douglas, Maud Elizabeth Doyle, Kasey Fleisher Hickey, 
J. Fox, Samantha Gurrie, 
Diego Hadis, Eviana Hartman, Katherine Hubbard, Emily Kastner, Carrie King, 
Molly Langmuir, April Long, Nicole Michalek, Richard Morgan, Will Morley, 
Sarah Moroz, Erika Nakamura, Brian Outland, Joanna Prisco, Jeff Rutherford, Natalie Shukur, Laura Silverman, Holly 
Siegel, Rebecca Sinn Kelly, 
Piercarlo Valdesolo, Rebecca Willa Davis, Kate Williams, Stephanie Wu.