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✨ Light-filled private studio with a point of view. ✨ A love letter to home in Kessler Park
{ Curated by @kathytranx }

Grateful for friends who are down for the weird ideas. @mulanalexander @kesslerstudios

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${ Best of Dallas 2026 } This is my fifth year producing Best of Dallas and it remains one of my favorite opportunities to turn an idea into an entire visual world. This year’s theme was Big D Reality—a playful, dramatic world inspired by reality television. The brief was reality TV stars, and I built out the creative direction around Love Is Blind: Dallas, shaping the talent, locations, wardrobe, lighting, and visual language into one cohesive world. The best part is watching an idea move from my head into the hands of a team and eventually become something none of us could have made alone. So grateful to everyone who trusted the concept, showed up fully, and helped bring this one to life. And yes—the cheeseburger is a self-portrait of me. I couldn’t produce an entire issue without finding a way to put myself in it. 🍔 ⭐ @dallasobserver 📸 Creative direction + photography: @kathytran.creatives | @kathytranx 🎭 Talent: @pilatesbodyraven | @jellybean.colleen | @zanabjaffrey | @thenancyrodriguez | @itsalexalemieux | @cureforparanoia @mulanalexander 📍 Location: @kesslerstudios @texastheatre @junglestudiofitness @serveandsipdallas @worldsprings @fnprnt_shop 🎬 Production: @danielrockeyx | @ashgphoto | @johnsontrantv | @joseph.rdrgz | @justin.trnn$

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{ A different view of the night }
Photographer Michael Tran joined us for DAAFF after party and caught some of the fun, candid moments happening throughout the event. ✨

📸 @michael.mf.tran
🎬 @daafilmfest

📍 @kesslerstudios

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{ Love when our home looks like this }
We hosted the Dallas Asian American Film Festival after party at our private home studio and had filmmakers, artists, friends + a whole bunch of people I’d never met before.

Four years into living + working here, nights like this make me realize this is one of my favorite things we get to do with this place. Make things, bring people together and see what comes out of it.

Really proud that Kessler Studios got to be one of the host venues in our city alongside the Dallas Museum of Art, Nasher Sculpture Center + Crow Museum of Asian Art. ❤️

Very happy to be a small part of what DAAFF is building in Dallas.

📍 @kesslerstudios
🍿 @daafilmfest x @daaartclub
📸 @kathytranx | @kathytran.creatives

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${ A Woman of Influence } Quynh Chau “QC” Stone brings a quiet confidence to every room she enters. Entrepreneur, wellness advocate, media personality and community leader, she continues to build with intention and impact. ❤️ @qcstonenetwork 💄 @the_soft_mua 👗 @stylistjbolin 📝 @planomagazine 📸 @kathytranx | @kathytran.creatives 📍 @kesslerstudios$

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