We caught up with the brilliant and insightful CiNava Photography a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

CiNava, appreciate you joining us today. Can you walk us through some of the key steps that allowed you move beyond an idea and actually launch?

While in school, Angel needed a guinea pig for a project he was working on or a second shooter. If he picked up a wedding gig, help with lighting, holding bounce cards, etc. Steve was there to help. Essentially, Steve became free labor. However, it was such a great experience working together, CiNava (a fusion of both last names) was born. Almost a decade later, we are forging ahead working with incredible talent, creatives and stylists in editorial fashion and celebrity photography as a duo.We are constantly learning about photography and believe this will always be the case. The only way to move forward is to continue to feed the passion.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

Well, to stay in a constant mode of innovative creation, as fortune would have it, we have each other to lean on. We’ve made plenty of mistakes and still do. By expressing ourselves emotionally and spiritually, we explore our surroundings. It gives the opportunity to open our minds and interact with other human beings. We are both very outgoing and love to connect with people. Out friends would certainly see the differences we add to a personal interactions and , in the business world as well.

We love the high energy of fashion, so it was a natural progression for us and something we could do as a duo team. We have so much fun playing off each other, kinda playing to the other’s yang. For he ying, Angel brings his right brain esthetics, which have been honed by a Fine Arts Degree in Photography from the Academy of Art University. For the yang, Steve brings his left-brain firepower, which has long been deployed toward the development of novel drugs in the biotechnology industry.

Collaborating beside incredible talents in their field to capture the true interpretation of unique vision and to inspire our message. As we specialize in capturing fashion, editorial and celebrities in high-end print fashion magazines and webitorials. We stretch our limits and incorporate new ideas.By exploring the sexy, raw, and edgy side of fashion we generalize our conceptual connotation of the theme.

CiNava is compelled to translate their own true feelings while behind the camera.

What do you find most rewarding about being a creative?

Photography is all about self-expression that speaks of storytelling within the designer’s wardrobe and styles. CiNava is connected with the idea of manifesting beautiful imagery that tells a story. Being marginalized for most of our lives, we have the ability to translate our experiences through pictures. Finding the creative purpose as being able to interpret a situation through what we see in the lens. In other words, anyone can take a pretty picture, but to take a situation and tie it to your vision is storytelling. The person flipping through a magazine who lands on your image must be captured and emotionally triggered in one way or another. The type of imagery that moves people.

How’d you build such a strong reputation within your market?

As we continue to stretch our limits and try to incorporate fresh ideas, we always follow our three descriptives, Creative – Edgy and Artistic. These three attributes are conducive to our storytelling. We visualize the beauty within our minds eye as we develop a connection with the body language of others. We find ourselves breaking ground in our photography to accommodate the gentrification of our fashion editorial imagery.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.cinavaphotography.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cinava_photography/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/CiNava-Photography/100044948145740/
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/angel-cintron-b143612/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/cinavaphoto
• Youtube: @cinavaphotography2157 https://www.youtube.com/@cinavaphotography2157/videos

Image Credits
Jack Feeley – Alexandra Van Zant – Nico Greetham – Marcella – Kyrylo Kabachenko – Marvin Cortes – Frankie Zulferino