Happy 2025! I’m buzzing with excitement after updating my website to share how my photography has evolved to serve Austin’s creative community. My sweet spot is editorial photography, where fashion, advertising, and intentional branding merge into visual storytelling that makes you FEEL. 

What Sets My Photography Apart

I’m that Austin photographer who is known for creating magazine-worthy images. You might spot my work on Austin Woman magazine covers or in other Texas publications, where I use my secret sauce in every shot – whether you’re a celebrity or just an amazing human being with a story to tell and an established business and brand on your shoulders.

I’ve given my portfolio a thoughtful refresh through intentionally selected work:

Projects: Where my favorite fashion, lifestyle, and editorial photography live.

Portraits: Editorial-style branding and headshots with an extra dose of extraordinary.

Assignments: Real-world magic for amazing clients like Anthropologie and the Greater Austin. Asian Chamber of Commerce. Think editorial event coverage for established brands and organizations.

Publications: My published work and gallery features that make my heart sing

Here’s a quick run down of the professional photography services I offer:

• Fashion Campaign Photography: Bringing your clothing collections to life through lookbooks and campaigns that make hearts skip a beat.
• Advertising Photography: Creating eye-catching highly-conceptual photography for advertising agencies and PR firms seeking that special something or a little of that wide-open sky, ranch, and cow magic.
• Brand Photography: Weaving backstories and a brand owner’s story together to create a vibrant set of images they can use for their websites and social media. Established businesses shine even brighter when they choose to do a rebranding photography session with me.
• Editorial Photography: Strategic storytelling is one of my superpowers. I can tell your story in ways words simply can’t whether there’s an assignment you need coverage for, profiles for people you need featured in a magazine, local Austin eateries and restaurants you need coverage for, I got you covered. You can also think streetstyle fashion photography and event coverage for magazines.

Let’s Create Something Extraordinary

Choose this year and this quarter to create impactful imagery that sets your brand apart. My calendar for photography contracts and projects are filling up quickly for 2025. Contact me now to figure out if my high-level offerings are the right fit for you.

If you’re someone with a vision, I can bring that story to life in living color.

Contact Me Here! 

One of the things I love doing as a creative photographer is producing personal projects that get me to stretch and expand my artistry so I can bring that whimsy to the assignments that magazines and businesses hire me to do for them. 

Just like the editorial work I do, I lean into storytelling where I can direct a scene to unfold in front of the stage I’ve set up, controlling lights, placement of people, and scenarios so I can capture genuine emotion out of people I direct. 

One of my ongoing projects is TAYO NA: an editorial magazine spotlighting nearly 30 Austin Filipino artists and makers. 

With my art director, Travis San Pedro, and graphic designer, Lisa Crawford, we were able to tell the story of Austinites who were invited to a Kamaya holiday dinner. On their way to pick up gifts for the gathering, they run into fellow Filipinos whom they knew and didn’t realize were fellow guests at the gathering. We see how they interact with each other, treating each other like family through the photographs I directed and took at various Filipino-owned Austin shops. The build-up of the story leads to seeing the guests gather at Kapatad where they continue to be in the spirit of being kapamilya, passing food and sharing a dinner through a kamayan feast.

Through this project, I was able to photograph Filipino foods you’d normally find at the spread. This included showcasing the staple of my childhood: a scored mango flipped inside out. 

I loved this image so much that I turned it into a die cut sticker and printed it with Sticker Mule. I’ve never made stickers before and it was a surprisingly easy process. Sticker Mule even gave me easy-to-understand proofs before committing and that made me feel incredibly confident ordering through them. And now I have an amazing sticker that promotes my work and reminds me to keep going as my team and I prepare for the second book of TAYO NA to be published in October 2024.

If you’d like to learn more about TAYO NA and how you can be a part of celebrating Austin Filipino Artists and Makers, click the following link: https://austinfilipino.com/

And if you’d like a sticker reach out to Joi@JoiConti.com ;)

I have never lived in a city that hugs the way that Austin hugs. Austin is a vibrant city that manages to balance a spirit of brilliant liveliness and rest. Austin sweeps you off your feet with all there is to do, and when you get to know people, you get to see what a strong community looks like, welcoming you in. 

To really get a feel for the creative and inspiring community, you must attend the pop-up markets throughout the city. Tomorrow, I’ll be joining the ranks of vendors for the first time at Cinful Sweets’ first anniversary, selling a curated set of prints. As a special sneak peek, here’s a picture of the beautiful bluebonnet ballet—the Texas state flower—that I’ll be selling:

It’s Bluebonnet season!

Come visit me and my fellow amazing vendors tomorrow at Cinful Sweets’ Anniversary! 

If you’re looking for more amazing things to do in Austin, check out this Redfin article that features me and other local photographers recommending our favorite activities. Unsurprisingly, for me, it’s all about food!