Choosing a creative life with Viola Virtamo

Eat Capture Share - a podcast for food bloggers

In this week’s episode (46) of The EAT, CAPTURE, SHARE Podcast, I’m talking to Viola Virtamo, photographer, graphic designer, videographer, cookbook author, visual artist and director of Dream Cozy, a publishing company based in Finland. We chat about how to establish a successful career as a photographer, how to find your style, how to curate your instagram feed and so much more. Here’s what else you can expect from this week’s episode …

• Viola introduces herself

• Viola shares what life in quarantine in Finland has been like for her

• Viola chats about what she’s been cooking in quarantine and how the current situation has positive affected her cooking skills

• Viola outlines how she started her photography career and how she established her creative business

• Viola described when and how she fell in love with food and food photography

• Viola shares her top food photography tips

• Viola explains how she found her own unique style and how she’s allowed it to continuously evolve

• We discuss what makes a great creative

• Viola shares where she found the courage to pursue her dream of working in a creative field

• Viola talks openly how she deals with creative set backs and rejections

• Viola notes why it’s been so important to obtain inspiration from a variety of different sources and explore different visual mediums

• Viola shares what her great sources of inspiration are

• Viola spills the beans on how she approaches the curation of her instagram grid

• Viola outlines what her creative process is and how she tackles client projects

• We discuss how best to plan a shoot

LINKS MENTIONED:

• Connect with Viola on instagram or via her blog, Nordic Violet

• Find Viola’s latest book here and her publishing company, Dream Cozy, here

• Linda Lomelino

• Pinterest

• Film Noir

• Planoly

• Onourcreativetable hashtag collaboration

• Find out more about my online food photography and visual story telling ecourse

• Listen in on my podcast interview with Julian Angel from Histori