Davina Tan
Davina Tan, known as @heydavina, shares food, cafés, city walks and travel discoveries from her New York base and trips around the world.
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Davina’s happenings, collected from public sources, plus her backstory and Starbook, where fans write.
Known for
Tiny Atlas Quarterly
Instagram
Instagram
ExplorestOverview
- Known online as
- @heydavina
- Based in
- New York City
- Work
- Travel and food creator, photographer
- Early recognition
- Photography featured by Google’s #teampixel in June 2017
- In print
- Contributing photographer, My Tiny Atlas (2019)
Mini bio
A creative challenge.
Davina’s food photography grew through experimentation. In a 2017 Passion Passport interview, she explained that she had challenged herself about a year earlier to improve her overhead flat-lay photographs. Natural light, a simple background and interesting objects became the foundations of her approach.
Finding her audience.
Her café photographs and city discoveries brought attention from publications and photography platforms. Google featured her Manhattan lunch photograph in its #teampixel series in June 2017. She also took over Domino’s Instagram to share plant-filled New York interiors.
Beyond the feed.
Tiny Atlas Quarterly credits Davina as a contributing photographer in Emily Nathan’s 2019 book My Tiny Atlas: Our World Through Your Eyes. In 2022, VSCO featured Eating NYC, a Space hosted by Davina that explored New York food through its A6 preset.
Little discoveries.
On Steller, Davina describes her interests through everyday pleasures: morning coffee, a good meal and exploring a new city on foot. Her location guides on Explorest carry that approach into practical advice, including where to stand to photograph Maman’s shelves and signature blue door.
Creditschronological, newest first
Travel and food collaborations
- 2026The Curious Palate by KimptonCreator sharing a hosted stay and dinner in an IHG Hotels advertisement
- 2022Eating NYCVSCO Space host
Photography
- 2019My Tiny Atlas: Our World Through Your EyesContributing photographer
- 2017Start off your summer with #teampixelFeatured photographer, Manhattan lunch image
Quotes
We’re sharing a bit of ourselves through the content we photograph in our flat-lays.Davina Tan, Passion Passport interview by Britton Perelman
In the interview originally published on October 2, 2017, she discussed how the things people photograph can reveal their interests.
Trivia
- Her flat-lay advice includes checking that your feet have not accidentally entered the frame.
- For her Maman photography guide, she lists a mobile phone and an appetite for pastries and coffee among the things to bring.
- Her Copenhagen café bookmarks extend beyond the eight stops in her November 2026 reel.
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