JBF Events

Michael Harlan Turkell: Greenhouse

September-October 2009

Michael Harlan Turkell

Michael Harlan Turkell, a once aspiring chef, now freelance photographer and a photo editor of Edible Brooklyn and Edible Manhattan magazines, has been photographing the inner workings of kitchens for his award-winning "Back of the House" project, which documents the lives of chefs in their restaurant world.

Michael's work has been selected for 25 Under 25: Up-and-Coming American Photographers V2, (PowerHouse Books, Spring 2008), received a Photo District News Photo Annual Award, and has published his work in an array of online publications and magazines, including his recurring "Back of the House" series for Edible Brooklyn and Edible Manhattan, Saveur, Gastronomica, Imbibe, New York magazine, Culture Cheese magazine, Metromix, and CITY magazine.

He is currently photographing for the tentatively titled The New Brooklyn Cookbook, to be released by Harper Collins in October 2010. He lives in Brooklyn, NY, with his cat, Mason, the namesake of Sixpoint Craft Ales' Mason's Black Wheat.