Dallas Curow Photography

Dallas Curow took her first photo at the age of five. “It was the reflection of a swan swimming on a pond, and I was just blown away that my camera could see what I saw that looked so magical: ‘It looks like there are two swans and it’s floating!’ And I remember getting the pictures back – this was so old that the corners were rounded – and thinking, ‘I saw that, it looked so magical to me and now I can show other people!’” she says. Today, with her company, Dallas Curow Photography, Dallas still strives to capture that enchanting, cinematic quality in her photographs.

Specializing in wedding and portrait photography, Dallas chooses to photograph people. “For me, it’s about showing people a life that’s a little bit elevated, a little bit magical. There’s this haze, or this sense of elevated reality, that I think I can show people,” she says. “And if you photograph a landscape and show it back to the landscape, it doesn’t care. But for the person to say, ‘Wow! I’ve never looked like that before! How does my hair look that good? Wasn’t that in a dirty parking lot? How does it look so sparkly, like we’re in this magical place?’ It’s just that moment of taking something that looks utterly boring and making it look captivating and larger than life. That’s what I live for.”