Bio: California-born photographer Dana Gallagher took a circuitous route through a Southern upbringing and a stint living back in Los Angeles before settling in her present home of New York City.

Her professional career, which has been much more straightforward, was launched in 1993 when she was selected to photograph an entertaining book for Martha Stewart. Gallagher has a deep appreciation for food and home design that is luminously reflected in both her personal work and a professional career that focuses on her favorite subjects of lifestyle, food, still-life, fashion, home, and beauty.

She currently lives in a Victorian rowhouse in Brooklyn that she has painstakingly restored with her boyfriend Steven at her side, and her daughter Imogen on her lap.