Danielle Acken is a Canadian-born award winning international food photographer and writer who splits her time between her studio in Vancouver, BC and her farm studio on Canada’s beautiful Salt Spring Island.

My food photography aims to engage people more closely with the world around them, and with the love of food that feeds body and soul. I take a natural approach to visual storytelling: I want my images to look approachable and even more desirable — to me a food photo is successful if it makes you want to reach in and eat it, or at least engage with it on several different sensory levels. I'm available world wide but divide my time mainly between Birmingham Alabama, the West Coast of Canada, and the UK.

Vancouver, CAN | London, UK | Birmingham, USA

1.778.536.7827 danielle@dlacken.com

Am I the only one dreaming of summer produce because the temperature is above 10 degrees? I want allllll the tomatoes in the ground NOW! Client: @outshinery Stylist: @__nomorecakes__ . . . #myquietbeauty #thesimpletable #tomatoes #heirloom #summer
Inspired by the wave of warmth and the promise of growing things. Peaches in Nova Scotia and @foodcultureplace's preserved bakeapples in Newfoundland. More pages from the portfolio. In our workshops we do a portfolio dive and teach you how to put you
Black and white; coffee and chocolate. Good things that go together. Come play with us at our upcoming workshop in Victoria BC on April 20-21 and learn how to nail down your signature style and build a portfolio that truly represents YOU! . . . #blac
Busy bees at their honey making; and my dear friend and fellow photographer Craig George amongst the ferns in the Brecon Beacons. Bees are from our book, A Rising Tide and feature @canoecovehoney . . . #PortfolioPages #portfolio #thisismyart #wwll
What an incredible honour it was to photograph Chef Lukas Exelby's beautiful forest themed menu for the Treetop Tapas & Grill dining room at the legendary @grotto.spa @TighNaMara Resort. This is, without a doubt, one of the finest West Coast insp
Always SO fun to see our work in the wild. Delightful morning at @woodshedprovisions grabbing pastries and a copy of the new @ediblevanisle — delighted to see my shots for @emily.lycopolus' beautiful recipes on 2 back to back full pages - they
The new site is LIVE.....albeit still working the kinks out. If you have 2 seconds and a penchant for giving feed back, I'd love to hear what you think. It's a much bigger presence than I've ever put out....eek. And HUZZAH! www.dlacken.com (link in b