Food Careers Deep Dive: Food Stylist

A Q&A with food stylist Sara Bartus.

When I was in college, studying fine art at UVM, I also worked as a photo assistant for a commercial photographer. My job included setting up lights, moving cameras, changing film in the darkroom (that dates me! It was the 1980s), and helping the food stylists when needed.

We were shooting for products, catalogs, and magazine spreads, which often involv…