I'm Bert

Two important things first: I love to cook & I love cameras. [family: if you're reading this I love you also.] Most of the time those two passions collide and the resulting combination shows up online and the kitchen is a mess.

I grew up in small-town Tennessee. I literally lived above my parent’s photo and framing studio for my formative years before we landed back on the family farm. As much as I tried to run away from cameras, it didn’t work. Now though, I like to think it's in my blood.

I moved to Nashville immediately after graduating from Tennessee with a degree in Advertising and spent a little over three years at Volunteer Traditions building websites, and working on their marketing, branding, and visuals. From there I spent over three years running photo and video for J. Alexander's Restaurants corporate, shooting across all locations and building their YouTube channel, just general tinkering. Like a lot of folks I’ve been around a few industries, but something kept pulling me back to the restaurant world. Most recently, I was Creative Director at Maple Street Biscuit Company, leading brand photos and video [sensing a pattern yet?] and tackling campaign work. These days, I'm shooting and filming for all sorts of food and hospitality brands big and small. Or maybe I’ll be helping you create whatever it is that you’ve got bouncing around in your head. Let’s talk.

Somewhere along the way I made my first documentary, A Timeless Bond, which screened at six film festivals across the region. I was completely shocked, but we screen to literal dozens of people and I made them cry with my art. So double win. Now that I think about it, that's where the real thread in my work lives. I'm interested in a pretty shot of a plate or a product, but I’m way more interested in the people and places behind it. Even for a quick shoot, I try to find the story underneath it: the reason a place or dish feels like it does. That's what I try to bring to everything, whether it's a thirty-second reel or a feature-length film [one day].

Thanks for stopping by and for reading this far. I encourage you to check out the site, and if you find something you like, let me know. Currently I don't shoot weddings, but that might change one day and then I'll get to delete this sentence.