Reels
Maria Erikson took the leap to start her freelance career after 28 years of full time agency life at Fallon, Olson and Carmichael Lynch combined. Some of her recent illustrations were used for projects with The Saint Paul Hotel, the Minnesota Twins 2024 Season, and landed on Lovebird Foods cereal boxes. Her years of experience capturing and creating content for brands like BUSH’S Beans, Garden of Life, Belize Tourism, Kayak, Discover Boating, Purina, Arla Foods and Phillips 66 brands enhanced the diverse skillset necessary to create successful content for Pacific Foods, Vital Proteins and Mae’s Market. Finding joy in launching Maria Erikson Studio LLC has reignited her creativity and passion in new freelance collaborations.
Food Reel
Maria has created many works over her career and is flexible in how to bring the creative vision to life depending on project needs and budget. She does not shy away from a challenge and has a knack for figuring out options when deadlines are tight.
When she's not capturing beautiful imagery, you can find her illustrating or experimenting with exciting ways to play with food.
Content Reel
Maria's expertise includes: photography,
prop styling, creative retouching, content creation, studio management, illustration and producing full photo productions. She has developed six studios and delivered thousands of pieces of content for social, digital, and traditional media including OOH, documentary image libraries, and broadcast vignettes.