• Hello! Introducing me, Christina Ashley Tran, & my values |

Being an entrepreneur at 24 seems like all the buzz these days — but in full trust, it’s not the easiest challenge. With grace and faith fighting half the battle, trust, integrity, and devotion follows through the rest.

My journey has been an immense and transparent one: where I cultivate safe space for physical embodiment, attunement, and relational connection through the process of creative collaboration and photography, as a healing modality. Uncovering my own subconscious biases and ancestral lineage healing has been integral to my personal success: I’m here to offer you my art as art, and to work together to bring your beloved creations to life! 🥳

Here are my values, what I strive for, and what I stand for in my business, and what you can expect working with me. 🧡

My interests:

— modeling your ethically designed clothes and fashion style, with the goal of making your product shine and bringing it to life 🤎

— having FUN! honoring our AAPI (Asian-American and Pacific Islander) community, including skin, bodies, facial tones and shapes, and cultures, histories, and lineages.

— Heart-centered & founded in love

— BIPOC & LGBTQ+ friendly and inclusive space; I value offering healthy communication, the energy of mindfulness and wellness in all areas of work and life, and am passionate about cultivating loving awareness and holding safe, free, expressively creative space, particularly for personal expression.

In 2022, I’ve gotten used to being on the other side of the camera: capturing spontaneously in my travels, strangers, and moments under the sun and moon.

Statement of Values to the Earth

— Sustainability & earth-friendly: I use my resources in ways that are cyclical and use & take only what I need, with the best intentions for this earth and honor for the land that we live upon. For this reason, carpooling or meeting in ways that are most in tandem to our environment are what I’d like to lean into — meeting up for our sessions in person is usually preferred, though I am sharing this just for the reader to keep in mind that I’m open to conversing about ways we can more efficiently express or use our resources!

— My photography honors the elements and incorporates them wherever I can. When I do, I always commune with permission and intention, with reverence for the seasons

— Stylistically, my photography seeks to honor health & wellness orientations in naturally subtle ways, including love for and of the human body // Using natural elements in my photography and modeling styles, like open spaces and natural lighting, I cherish and encode my work with healing energy for timeless and radiant self-expression, with the intention of abundant connection to and among all beings.

What can you expect working with me? I bring an energy that’s been described as: effervescent, light, in-depth, safe, translucent and almost shimmery; loving, timeless, devoted and committed, in ways that do not compromise in value or depreciate the value of shared essence. Our work is entirely confidential, of course, and a shared space between client and photographer.

I never pass up a chance to laugh, and if either of us are having a bad day, a beaming smile and laughter can shift the mood in amazing ways ~ but don’t mistaken that as not a chance, to get deep and real with your truth.

As a photographer and creative director, I strive to offer a space that feels at ease to be in, to most awaken your authentic self. From start to finish, it’s my hope that you feel comfortable communicating what you want or need, dancing within our shared session and container, and feel most amazed and enthused receiving back the work we did together. ❤️ It’d bring me no greater joy than to be apart of your creative world! (I’ll likely break my back to capture your shot, but I’ll be hyping you the entire way 😉✨

All my work is rooted and founded in love and reverence for all beings, nature, and humanity. I intend on prioritizing service to those who are grounded and rooted in similarly connective values, and offer sliding scale for more accessibility.

As a model, creative director, and human, I’m looking to work with clothing, makeup, or household goods brands that are focused on making this world a better place through their impact. Not just saying it — but being it, too. I place value in ethics, and am highly creative and intrinsically motivated, through my own passionate expressions of writing and photography, which you can find on this site in my “Sunny Places” blog!

As an emotionally empowering and neurodivergent artist, fueled by an understanding and love of people, it’s my honor to serve and delight you, and bring your innermost visions to life in a safe space, filled with the light of what you’d like to call forth. I am relationally and process-focused, and intend on creating transformational, timeless work for us to share and lasting quality in your life. In these times we live in, I will always choose love over fear, and this is reflected in all that I do!

I value community, abundance, self-expression and curiosity, with passionate intrigue, over fast-paced capitalism or discriminatory biases. Let’s support more people of color in our work. I’m looking forward to connecting with you, soon!

xoxo,

Christina

Give it your best, give it your all.

With me, don’t worry about the stress of being someone that you’re not. Working with me as a model or creative director for your portraits, I strive for perfection in my work — something I take on, in my own ways. In aiming for the best and reaching beyond what seems initally possible, our work together will always land among the stars, capturing and bringing to life the inherent beauty of all energies present in our intentions.

I love and value natural light, organic textures, and visual beauty in all of my photography.