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.

My background in web production helps me plan image sets not only as beautiful photographs, but as usable visual assets for websites, product pages, campaigns and digital communication.

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.