Bilet & Smith: The Making of Modernist Cuisine

Ryan Matthew Smith

Mr. Smith grew up in Kent, a Seattle sub­urb. He first dis­cov­ered his love for tak­ing pic­tures while work­ing on his AAS at Green River Community College. After some­what reluc­tantly sign­ing up for a pho­tog­ra­phy class, Mr. Smith soon found him­self spend­ing hours in the dark­room engrossed in his work. Despite his grow­ing inter­est in pho­tog­ra­phy, it wasn’t until his house and many of his prized pho­tographs were con­sumed by fire that Mr. Smith decided to pur­sue his inter­est full­time. Shortly after the fire, he trans­ferred to the Art Institute of Seattle, ulti­mately earn­ing an AAS in pho­tog­ra­phy. He joined the Modernist Cuisine team in 2007 after respond­ing to a Craigslist job ad for a photo editor.