ABOUT
Hi, I'm Dana
Hi, I'm Dana
You’ve seen the work. You’ve seen the price. This is the bit where you find out who’s actually behind the camera.
THE REAL REASON
I do this
I do this
His name is Oscar. He’s my son. He’s the reason I do everything I do.
Oscar was born with Down syndrome and has autism, and he’s nonverbal. He’s also the strongest, most determined human I’ve ever met. He’s taught me more about unconditional love, about what actually matters, about living in the moment, than anyone else ever could. Every single day he shows me what resilience looks like. Every single day he makes me braver.
If you’re a parent, you get it. That feeling where your kid is your entire world and you’d move mountains for them? That’s Oscar for me. That’s every fibre of my being. He’s the reason I don’t do stress. Life’s too short to sweat the small stuff when you’ve got a kid who teaches you what actually matters every single morning.
He’s my absolute everything. And he’s the reason I’m so fucking good at what I do because I pour all of that love, all of that strength, all of that determination into every wedding I shoot.
HOW I ENDED UP HERE
2012. A friend asked me to shoot her wedding because she’d seen some photos I’d taken of my nephew and liked them. I told her, properly told her that I was not in any capacity to shoot a wedding. She said “if you don’t do it, I don’t have any pictures.” So I did it as a favour.
I was terrified. I didn’t know what I was doing. But I loved every single minute of it.
She posted the photos afterwards. Another friend asked me to do hers. Then another. It snowballed.
Before all this, I was a drum teacher. I’d got into photography taking pictures of bands for a music magazine when we interviewed them. Music was my first love and weddings were the accident that became the obsession.
Bring me to today, I’ve poured everything into being better at this. Mentorship. Workshops. Gear. Thousands of pounds and thousands of hours. I’m not casual about it. This is the work of my life.
THE REST OF
the picture
the picture
I’m married to Craig. He puts up with me, which is a job in itself.
When I’m not shooting weddings, I’m at the wacky warehouse with Oscar, swimming, or recording music. I still go and watch bands whenever I can. I’ll have a can of Pepsi Max in my hand within five minutes of waking up. It’s an addiction. Don’t judge me.
I cry at speeches. Genuinely. I’ve tried not to and I can’t. But I also laugh at inappropriate groom jokes, there was one wedding where the groom absolutely went for it in his speech, crossing every line, and I was crying with laughter behind the camera. That’s me. I find funny funny. If you’re the kind of people who can have a proper laugh, who don’t take yourselves too seriously, who want someone at your wedding who’s genuinely having the time of her life, we’re going to get on.
I’m married to Craig. He puts up with me, which is a job in itself.
When I’m not shooting weddings, I’m at the wacky warehouse with Oscar, swimming, or recording music. I still go and watch bands whenever I can. I’ll have a can of Pepsi Max in my hand within five minutes of waking up. It’s an addiction. Don’t judge me.
I cry at speeches. Genuinely. I’ve tried not to and I can’t. But I also laugh at inappropriate groom jokes, there was one wedding where the groom absolutely went for it in his speech, crossing every line, and I was crying with laughter behind the camera. That’s me. I find funny funny. If you’re the kind of people who can have a proper laugh, who don’t take yourselves too seriously, who want someone at your wedding who’s genuinely having the time of her life, we’re going to get on.
HIT ME
Tell me about your day.
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