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Faces carry stories no caption ever could. Each of these portraits is a moment of quiet truth — shot on location and in studio across Toronto and Vancouver Island.
Food photography rooted in the same philosophy as the cooking — real ingredients, honest light, no pretense. From Hotel Zed to deep forest foraging.
Candid, unguarded, alive. Finding the story in the space between posed and real.
Work that doesn't fit a brief. Landscapes, quiet details, experiments with light and grain. Photography as a private conversation with the world.
— Jonathan Swift
Born in Sri Lanka, raised in North York, Ontario — Desh Fernando picked up a camera before he could properly explain why. At ten he stole the family camcorder. By twenty he was at Concordia University's Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, where his first film Lola & Me aired on Bravo! and the National Film Board of Canada, receiving the Istvan Kantor Award for Innovation.
Twelve years in film and television followed. Then came the kitchen — not as an escape from the lens, but as an extension of it. A new way of telling stories about land, people, and place. Wild Kitchen brought both worlds together: cinematographer and chef, firing on the same instinct.
Now based on Vancouver Island, Desh shoots between seasons of Wild Kitchen — always with the same eye that started everything: the one that sees what others walk past.