SUZANNE CLEMENTS: Commercial Photographer + Director

The Fine Art Background Nobody Expects. The Pre-Production Precision Everybody Notices.

Suzanne Clements is a commercial photographer and creative director specializing in food, beverage, lifestyle, and product photography for national advertising, packaging, print and digital social campaigns. With over a decade behind the lens and another decade before that in graphic design and creative direction, she brings something most photographers simply don't have: she’s a creative partner who sees the entire campaign, not just the shot list.

That perspective is rooted in her experience as a trained painter and illustrator. Whether the story is about flavor, texture, a brand moment, or a feeling, her artist’s eye teases out exactly what needs to be in the frame and what doesn’t. Detail-obsessed, vibrant, modern, and high-energy, her work locks attention and drives engagement, with compositions built for maximum impact across platforms. She honors the creative brief, elevates the visuals, respects the design process, and makes the production smooth and seamless for her agency and brand partners.

Suzanne began shooting product and food photography while producing marketing materials for her design clients. Rather than brief another creative and lengthen the chain, she picked up the camera herself. That decision earned her multiple Addy Awards and recognition from Communication Arts Photography Annual.

Based in Central Florida and Chicago, available in New York City, Los Angeles, the Southeast, Suzanne shoots for clients across the country including Publix, Sunsweet, Absolut, Kraft Heinz, Oscar Mayer, Disney, Red Lobster, Delish, and Garden & Gun, and is represented for commercial work by Erica Chadwick at Etc. Creative, Inc.

SUZANNE’S SPECIALTIES

Across every medium, every set, and every deliverable, one thing stays constant: Suzanne goes in with a plan. Shot lists, sketches, and pre-production alignment mean that when the crew wraps, everything is in the can. No scrambling, no reshoots, no gaps.

Food & Beverage Hero shots & campaign suites for lifestyle and CPG brand packaging, marketing, social, and editorial work that makes flavor visible. From a single product on white to elaborate multi-set productions with full styling teams, capturing splashes, pours, and thirst quenching moments, built to perform across every platform your campaign touches.

Lifestyle Warm, joyful, human-centered imagery that puts your product inside a moment people actually want to live in. Directed with the same campaign-level thinking that keeps every frame on-brief and on-brand.

Product & Still Life Detail-forward, graphic, and built for versatility across digital and print. Every angle, every crop designed with your layouts in mind from the start.

Video & Motion From intimate tabletop product videos to large-scale commercial productions, Suzanne directs the full range. She's led campaigns involving virtual production and bolt robot cinematography, lifestyle and people-focused shoots, and crisp stop-motion animation for social and campaign content. She works with a DP to bring the right technical expertise to every production, while she holds the creative vision from pre-production through final delivery.

Stop-Motion & Animation Frame-by-frame storytelling planned in pre-production and captured in-camera for efficiency. Designed to live alongside stills in a cohesive campaign suite or stand alone as social-ready content.

Creative Direction Full pre-production support including concept development, sketch-based shot lists and pre-vis, and on-set creative leadership. The shorter chain between vision and execution that agencies and brand teams actually notice.

High Fidelity and Sunny Aesthetic Truly unique, true-to-life, highly tactile images that bring out the detail in every surface, crumb, drip, and splash. Every image is bathed in vibrant light and viewers can pretty much TASTE the image. Ideal for CPG brands looking to stand out among their competition.

Full Production Support All the details are covered from casting and location scouting to crafty, creative team, crew, and payroll.

In-House Retouching Want the aesthetic you see on this site? The vibrant, bright, sunny aesthetic? Let Suzanne handle the post-production and retouching and you’ll get that exact look dialed in for your campaign.