Yudi Ela is a James Beard award winning photographer based between Los Angeles and New York City. She specializes in still life, portraiture, food & beverage, and fashion & beauty. A through-line of her work is the continued desire to explore the way light and materials interact with one another while, stylistically, evoking the mood of bygone eras and culture. She seeks to create imagery that has a quality of timelessness and references vintage and antique moods, while staying grounded in contemporary life. Ela was originally trained in only classic analogue techniques and making use of only natural light, through which she cultivated a dreamy, cinematic quality to her work. In her work, she seeks to marry both past and present, the gauzy allure of dream worlds and immediacy of reality.