I’m Svetlana Larina — a Finland-based food and product photographer with 15 years of experience and formal education in photography and visual expression.

I create studio-produced commercial image sets for food brands, ingredient producers and seasonal campaigns: product-in-use imagery, editorial recipe content and coherent visuals for websites, social media, campaigns, packaging and print.

My focus

I work with brands, makers, restaurants and creative/marketing teams that need warm, clean and premium visuals for product launches, packaging, campaigns, websites and social media.

My focus is food, product and brand photography — images that are not only visually appealing, but clear, consistent, technically reliable and useful in real commercial contexts.

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What I create

Food Brand Stories

Product, process and serving visuals that show how a product lives in real use.

Seasonal Campaigns

Christmas, Easter, spring, autumn and limited-edition visual sets for food brands and product collections.

Editorial Recipe Content

Recipe-led imagery with ingredients, process details, finished dishes and styled serving variations.

People Behind the Product

Founder, maker or team portraits can be included when a food or product story needs a human presence.

Studio-based production

Most food and product projects are created in my studio in Kuopio, Finland. This allows controlled light, repeatable sets, careful styling and a consistent visual language across the full image set.

Products can be shipped to the studio, and the project can be planned remotely: concept, moodboard, shot list, approvals and final delivery can all be handled online.

Selected people or maker elements can be discussed when they are part of the product or brand story.

How I work visually

I approach food and product photography as a visual system, not a collection of separate images.

A single concept can become a full content set: hero images, product-in-use scenes, process details, serving shots, seasonal variations, vertical crops and optional short-form video.

My work tends toward clean, intentional, editorial imagery: controlled light, natural textures, quiet gestures and a coherent colour rhythm across the set.

Materials and production choices

Whenever possible, I use pre-owned props, reusable surfaces and materials, and plan sets efficiently to avoid unnecessary waste.

This is not a separate visual style, but part of the way I work: considered props, controlled production and materials that can be reused across different stories without making the images feel generic.