Lauren is a Fine-art Lifestyle and Wedding Photographer based in Dallas, Texas and available for commissions world-wide. She specializes in storytelling through photography and bringing out beauty in all people. Style, class, emotion, life and love motivate Lauren’s passion to photograph weddings and portraits. Some of Lauren’s clients include: ABC Radio, Air Review, Awaken Movement, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Dillinger & Kovach, Ebony Magazine, Sleeperstar, Wells Fargo Advisors, and Women’s Health Alliance.
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HELLO! Thanks for visiting my site and wanting to get to know me a little bit! For an informal introduction, I’ll tell you about the most important people in my lives: I’m married to the smartest most handsome man in the world, Mr. Matthew Larsen and have one daughter named Life, who is almost three years old. In our spare time we enjoy traveling, coffee, good wine, running and the simple joy of relaxing!
You may be wondering, did you name Life, Life, before or after she was born? Before. For some reason we just felt like we were supposed to name her Life… and here’s maybe the reason why:
Miss Life Lucia came into our lives at the perfect time and survived a tumultuous pregnancy. After going into pre-term labor at 23 weeks, I delivered her at 35 weeks with a fever of 103 degrees. Soon after she was born, she became septic as her little body could not fight off whatever infection we both had. She was life-flighted to Children’s Medical Center and put on a machine called ECMO (heart, lung and kidney bi-pass machine which gave her body enough time to fight whatever infection she was fighting). On day 5, she developed a grade-3 brain bleed and had to be removed from the machine. We were crushed. As soon as we were beginning to gain hope that she would survive, it was like all hope was lost. But, God is healer and he miraculously sustained her little body and lungs and she was able to survive off of the machine. We did not enter parenthood easily and we have had several bumps along the way (hydrocephalus and a VP-shunt placement and replacement), but I am thankful for every trial along the way. Everyday I see a walking miracle and her name testifies to the gift that she has been given. She is life and light to us…
How did I get started into photography?
My grandmother was an oil painter and worked in a photography studio for over 35 years putting the color into the studio’s sepia photographs. She was an incredibly gifted oil painter and portrait artist and she was my inspiration for all my curiosity about art – especially about photography. The first time I picked up my dad’s old 35mm camera when I was a little girl, I knew that I wanted to be a photographer. Through the years, my passion for documenting precious moments and portraits of people became a part of who I am. I see life through a series of still images. I want to freeze time so that we can really ENJOY it. Photography is my way of doing that. When I was starting my business almost 6 years ago, I interned under several of Dallas’ best photographers and to them I owe much gratitude. Their voice still echos in my ears as I photograph and deliver a product. Art is a beautiful gift that I create for people, but I stand on the shoulders of many artists and am inspired by many painters, photographers, sculptors and ultimately by God’s creation. I simply desire to bring out beauty in my work.
I would love to meet you and bring out the beauty that is… YOU!
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