About Me

I Don't Play With My Food;

I bring a food stylist eye to all of my work from multimedia to editorials and advertisements creating consistently beautiful and appetizing images that stimulate the taste of all that gaze upon my work.

Charlene Perry

Charlene Perry

Food Stylist and Producer

I have come to food styling from an unorthodox route. My love of food started at an incredibly young age as my Mother, and I would go into the kitchen and prepare late-night treats of great delights and very tasty too. I was taught to eat with your eyes and not with your stomach.

I worked my way through school at the grand hotels on Miami Beach where food was showcased as great works of art. There chefs would create great ice sculptures and the masters of the art of Garmache would make a watermelon fruit salad look like the Eiffel Tower. Food was more exciting to me than the great works of art at The Louvre in Paris France. The colors, the taste…oh, what a wonderful medium for art!

After school, I was hired by an international airline where my education on food preparation and serving skills matured under the guidance of the great restaurant Maxim’s of Paris. Later, a career in hotel management and even later a career in publishing a culinary magazine introduced me to food styling. If ever a job was created for any one person…this was for me!

As a magazine publisher for a culinary magazine, I had the opportunity to serve on culinary school advisory committees, judge food cook-offs and competitions, and serve on Olympic cooking teams with international chefs. I became considerately aware of the importance of ‘the presentation’ on the plate and the tricks of propping the presentation.

Since then, my production skills have taken me from farm to table, from kitchen to set, working with photographers and chefs, small and large, food companies, and advertising agencies bringing good looking images that savor the eye and stimulate the taste to all that gaze upon my work. I have produced, directed and styled in all media forms from stills, TV, video, and film. I am currently working as a food producer on Fox Nation and I have just finished the latest Frosted Flakes commercial with Shaquille O’Neal.

Although, I currently work out of Atlanta GA  I am always available to travel to my next job wherever I am needed.

My Client List

Barilla Pasta
Belca Food Company
Bone’s Restaurant
Calphalon Inc.
Chick-fil-A
Coca-Cola
Fox Nation
Hemingway’s Seafood Grill and Oyster Bar
Hooters Restaurant
Hotel Indigo Atlanta
Imperial Fez Restaurant
Kellogg’s
Kenny’s Great Pies

King’s Hawaiian Rolls
Kraft Foods
La Parrilla Mexican Restaurant
Lowes Hotel Atlanta
MAMA MARY’S Pizza
Mansion on Peachtree Atlanta
McDonald’s
Publix
Relish Restaurant
Skyy Vodka
Smirnoff VODKA
Smoothie Inc.
W Hotel Atlanta