I used to style and take photos of the furniture at KOI Kemang Restaurant & Gallery. In case you are curious, you can see my photography portfolio on my blog posts about KOI furniture here. I love KOI Kemang’s gallery. If you live in Jakarta and like modern industrial style, I highly recommend going there. I don’t say this because I used to take their furniture photos. I say this because it truly makes me a happy person just to walk around in the KOI Gallery.
I really enjoyed a photo taking gig/project with KOI Kemang Gallery almost for a year. Then I got pregnant in the middle of 2011 and it put my life on hold. That’s fine. Life goes on and I moved on. I gave birth at the end of February 2012. I think it was around the time when my baby son turned 5 months. I approached KOI Kemang and just said I would be happy to help when they need someone to take photos of their furniture.
This is what I landed. I love food photography. I’m still learning a lot. I am humbled to show my styling (actually there isn’t much styling…), but I would like to showcase my photos so that this will be my incentive to get better at photo taking. As you can see in my blog I love to take photos of food at restaurants I go. I especially enjoy doing so in Jakarta because this is my current home and I would like to introduce all the nice places to eat and collect the information in this space. I am not paid to take photos of restaurants I feature on my blog. It’s all coming from me.
I plan on posting some food photography on Thursdays. I’m raising 3 little kids at the moment and that is my job and priority. This blog is just my hobby and my place to fulfill my desire to show what I love doing besides being a wife and mom. Therefore, my posting for food photography will not be consistent. I know already. I’ll try my best to show up, but if you don’t see a post on Thursday, you can imagine that I’m spent after a day with kids and fell asleep at the night-time when I usually blog.
KOI Kemang
Kemang Raya No. 72
Kemang, Jakarta Selatan
TEL: +62 21 719 5667 / +62 21 719 5668
Nice photos, did you make the recipes?
No, I wish!! I’m not that good. I ate them though! 🙂
Looks Yummy. You should share some of your styling/photography tips with us amateurs. 🙂
Aaah, thanks! I’m a total amateur as well! You’re so sweet!! I’ll try to write something about that. Thanks for the idea!
oh my goodness. my inner dessert fiend is salivating 🙂
Thanks, Shoko! I have an inner dessert monster (and friend)! I wish seeing is satisfying enough!
looks delicious, great photos. I empathise with you as I feel the same about juggling and multi-tasking.
Thank you!! I’m glad to have you on the same boat. 🙂 I thought I am a multi-tasker, or maybe I thought I was able to manage multiple tasks before kids time, but now with 3 kids, all of the sudden I started to feel that I’m a bit of a disorganized mess.