About Peggy Cormary Studio
Commercial & Fine Art Photographer in Washington DC
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"I see photography as a dialogue between beauty, purpose, and the spaces we choose to inhabit. Whether I am shooting a chef's signature dish or creating a fine art floral commission for a hotel lobby the intention is always the same: to make something that feels true, and stays with you."
Peggy Cormary is a Washington DC-based commercial and fine art photographer whose practice spans two complementary worlds. As a commercial photographer she works with restaurants, hotels, chefs, and creative brands capturing food, beverage, interiors, and hospitality with a refined editorial eye. As Peggy Cormary Studio, she creates original floral fine art works deeply layered, dreamlike images built through double-exposure and alternative photographic processes for spaces that want more than decoration. They want a feeling.
Peggy's creative perspective was not shaped in a studio, it was shaped around a table. Growing up in France, food was never just sustenance. It was ritual, connection, and beauty in its simplest form a market vegetable, a shared meal, afternoon light falling across a kitchen. That early intimacy with the pleasures of everyday life led naturally to a lifelong passion for still life painting, art, and the way extraordinary design can live quietly inside ordinary moments.
Living in Brazil expanded that vocabulary entirely. Fearless color, vitality, the dissolving of inside and outside spaces felt as much as seen. A world where beauty was abundant and unapologetic.
Years in Washington DC's food and hospitality, being a freelancer at Food section for the Washington Post, then sharpened something else: a deep understanding of what makes a brand distinctive in a competitive, design-conscious city. What a space needs to say. What a dish needs to feel like before it is ever tasted.
That layered cultural eye, paired with a genuine passion for contemporary design, unique spaces, and the painterly qualities of light and composition means every shoot brings something refined and unexpected. Not just technically accomplished imagery, but a fresh perspective that makes a client's work look like the best version of itself.
Peggy holds a BFA in Visual Arts from the American College of the Mediterranean in Aix-en-Provence, France. . Her commercial work has been featured in The Washington Post, Country Life Australia, the White House Historical Association, Red Bull, and Aix Rosé.She is also a member at the prestigious art gallery Washington Printmaker in Georgetown, in Washington DC.
Six years. Dozens of returning clients. Some of Washington DC's most respected restaurants, hotels, and culinary brands. The trust of a long-term creative partnership shows in the work and in the businesses that keep coming back.
Every great space has a story worth telling beautifully. Let's tell yours.
AWARDS
2024-2026 AP-AI SELECTED WINNERS
2025 APA AWARS WINNERS SERIES 2nd place with the Seasons of Flavors series
2025 APA OFF THE CLOCK WINNER with exhibition in LA June 2026