Diego Arenas brings his gastronomic photography to the Canary Islands

Canary Islands prepares to look at the kitchen from another angle: that of the professional image. The food photographer Diego Arenas, one of the leading names in international culinary photography, will teach two specialized workshops on the islands within the program of the GastroCanarias Cooking Classroom. The sessions will be held in Tabaiba Restaurant, in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, and in Moral, in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, with format shooting live gastronomy.

The proposal is aimed at professional photographers, digital content creators, communication managers, marketing agencies, community managers of restaurants and professionals linked to restoration and gastronomic communication. The objective is to show, in a real work environment, How to build an effective culinary image: from preparing the camera plate to the final shot.

It will not be a conventional theoretical class. In both workshops, Diego Arenas will carry out a live photo session with guest chefs, so that attendees can observe the coordination between kitchen, product, styling, luz, composition and production rhythm. In Gran Canaria, The workshop will feature the participation of Abraham Ortega, head of Tabaiba. In Tenerife, The session will take place alongside Icíar Pérez y Juan Carlos Pérez-Mayor, from the restaurant Moral.

During training, Participants will be able to learn about the decisions behind professional gastronomic photography: How to adapt a plate to a camera, what role does lighting play, how to visually organize a plate, What changes when the image is designed for social networks, cards, menus, media or brand materials, and how to work in real kitchen times.

Born in Barcelona and settled in Bangkok, Diego Arenas came to photography from the kitchen, an experience that has marked their way of understanding the product, the service and the chef's look. He later developed his career as a food stylist and was a founding partner of Kema Food Culture, one of the pioneering studios in gastronomic photography. His works have appeared on platforms and publications such as Michelin Guide, The World’s 50 Best Restaurants, Vogue, Lifestyle Asia y Prestige.

Each workshop will last one day, during the hours of 15:30 a 20:00 hours, with a maximum of 20 places. The registration price is 170 euros and includes teaching material and certificate of attendance as a Gastronomic Styling Workshop. Registration will remain open until places are sold out..

With this double date, he GastroCanarias Cooking Classroom reinforces its commitment to increasingly necessary training in the sector: the visual communication of gastronomy. because today, in restoration, a dish is not only cooked and served; it is also thought, is framed and counted.