Carrie Draghi and Carrie Draghi Photography…

“If it is moving, if it is breathing, if it laughs, if it crys, if it displays emotion (or refuses to), we want to shoot it!”

I grew up a Daddy’s girl in southern Colorado.  My dad was a teacher, a farmer and an artist – with a camera he kept on the floor of his bedroom closet.  I remember being fascinated by it.  I played with it, thinking that making the little [exposure metering] gauge move from left to right to center was a fun little game!   Years later, he took me to the desk along the back wall of Service Merchandise (do they still exist?) to buy my first camera.  I would sit in the back seat of my parents car, “framing” imaginary photographs with my fingers and declaring, “That would be a pretty picture!”   It is funny (now that I am a parent myself) to think how that must have driven my parents crazy on our cross country road trips!

Making that gauge in the viewfinder move to the center is still a game for me.  Taking photographs remains as much fun as it was when I got my first camera.  Every wedding I photograph brings me as much joy as the first, every family portrait is more precious than the last.  I know that I am blessed and fortunate to be able to LOVE what I do.  And, I believe that very love and joy is reflected in how I photograph and what I ultimately capture as an image.

After years working as a freelancer,  I own and operate (with the help of the amazing and irreplaceable CDP team), a full service photography studio located right on Route 17, in the heart of South Glastonbury.  Since our official LLC was established in 2005, we have specialized in “shooting people.” 

Now, we also do our fair share of product shots, corporate work, stock photography, etc. In fact, we have done work with some impressive names like L’Oreal and W Magazine (we would be foolish to turn that business away).  But what REALLY moves us is capturing the energy and emotion of real people.  We love creating images that are timeless and lyrical, interesting and affecting; images that will be cherished as family heirlooms for generations.