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There is such a thing as a free lunch for Lisa Linder, who ditched her advertising job to become a jet-setting photographer in the rarefied world of travel and gastronomy. Hannah Booth asks how it's done
For someone who fell rather haphazardly into photography, Lisa Linder is a prolific professional. To categorise her is hard, but her portfolio includes food, fashion, reportage and interiors projects, and some astonishing portraits. And travel. In fact, visiting distant shores and shooting people, interiors and food forms part of almost every project. She has just returned from Argentina, has covered every inch of Europe, and visited Cuba and the Dominican Republic, among hundreds of exotic destinations.
It wasn't always thus for Linder, a warm, lively mother-of-two. A first job in TV graphics was short-lived after it dawned on her that 'it takes ten years before they let you design your first title sequence'. She exchanged it for a 'great job' as an art director at Australian Vogue for two-and-a-half-years (she is half Australian), followed by six years in advertising...