About Dallas
Creative director and lead photographer
A multi-passionate creative, she loves to help people follow their dreams by creating images that show their lives and endeavours in the brightest possible light.
Shooting professionally for 18 years in various cities throughout Canada and the US, Dallas works fluidly between the genres of portraiture, lifestyle and fashion.
She is as comfortable working on a major campaign with a large creative team on location as she is working intimately with individual clients in her studio or in their homes. An adaptable artist, she is agile enough to tailor her approach to the project at hand while still weaving a thread of romanticism throughout her work.
Regardless of the project, she brings professionalism, an editorial eye and a sense of humour. It is important to her that every client has fun, feels comfortable, and receives the pictures of their dreams.
When she’s not working, she is usually watching RuPaul’s Drag Race or the Great British Bake-Off, reading 3-4 books at a time, going for long walks with friends while talking rapidly and clutching a coffee or eating ice cream, or exploring the city’s many playgrounds with her family.
“I admire all those who can see into the mystery of things. Those who can divine, from the plainness of what is, the beauty of what can be.”
— Rings of Power
Press & media appearances
CBC Arts: “What it’s like to give birth in a worldwide health crisis” ( personal essay)
CBC Arts: “An artist’s guide to falling in love with Edmonton” (my city guide)
TVO - The Agenda: “What Has the Pandemic Taught Us?” (television interview)
TVO - The Agenda: “Has the Pandemic Changed How We Capture Memories?” (television interview)
Interview on A Most Unusual T Party (podcast episode)
Publications & features
Wedding Bells // Style Me Pretty // Wedding Bells // The Wedding Co. ( 1 ) ( 2 ) ( 3 ) // FASHIONmagazine.com // Beauty Editor // Wedding Flowers & Accessories // Green Wedding Shoes // Ruffled // Rustic Wedding Chic ( 1 ) ( 2 ) // Wed Loft ( 1 ) ( 2 ) // Belle Amour // McGill University // The Irish Times // Montreal Gazette // The Lincoln Apartment Bakery // Up! Magazine // Xtra // Anna with Love // Before the Big Day // The Whale & The Rose // Pura Botanicals
Words that inspire Dallas’s work
“Bitch you are fabulous. Use what you have to get what you need and go forth!”
- RuPaul
“Tiffany was not satisfied with being a great glass artist. He was also a silversmith and an ornamentalist. Above all else he was a great poet, in the sense that he was conintually inventing and creating beauty.”
- Art Nouveau by Jean Lahor
“I am a great friend of chaos. I mean, this whole concept of being able to manage life… life is risk, life is chance, being open to chance. The best things in my life, and probably anybody’s life come out of being open to being blown off course.”
- Tilda Swinton
Dallas lives in Edmonton with her partner, their two little children, and their bossy bearded collie, Pearl.