The line at Poké Papa stretches all the way around the room, but Justin Schuble doesn’t have to wait. He cuts to the front and asks for the owner of the new spot devoted to Hawaiian-style raw fish, the city’s latest food craze. Kerry Chao hops right over. DC’s most influential food Instagrammer has arrived.
A visit from Schuble, better known to his 142,000 Instagram followers as @DCFoodPorn, means restaurants can get their most photogenic dishes splashed across the social-media feeds of Washington. “Go crazy,” Chao says when Schuble asks what’ll look good under the lens. “Whatever you like.”
Within minutes, Chao has personally prepared three bowls of poke (much prettier than the ones I’d bought myself a couple of days earlier), and Schuble and his assistant for the day cart the food out to the sidewalk. There, in the natural light, Schuble can get to work. He pulls out his Sony Alpha (iPhones are for amateurs), arranges his subjects on the red-brick sidewalk (nice contrast with green seaweed salad and pink watermelon radish), and click-click-clicks. By the time he finishes angling and hoisting and rearranging the bowls 11 minutes later, he has 102 photographs of fish atop rice.
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https://www.washingtonian.com/2017/06/29/dcfoodporn-instagrammer-one-powerful-new-players-dc-restaurant-scene/Dude pulls down $40k for taking pictures of food, part time.
