Today we’d like to introduce you to Chino.
Chino, let’s start with your story. We’d love to hear how you got started and how the journey has been so far.
I started taking photos around 9th grade but it wasn’t nothing serious at first, I would just walk around with a camera with my neck waiting for someone to ask me to take they picture LOL. Around 10th & 11th grade is when I took this photography class at first it was just an excuse to skip class and walk around the hallways but at some point, I actually decided to take it seriously, I believe it was just the hype people would give me at the time mixed with the fact I wasn’t doing anything significant at the time so I just said fuck it why not. Around 2017 I was in my first art show, It was the first time I had actually had my photos printed and bought, at that point I was like yea maybe this is something I can do, but the year after that my camera broke and I almost thought it would be over there, so for a year I just stopped taking photos, until early 2019 when I got my first film camera cause people would still be asking me to take their photos and once again I wasn’t doing shit LOL.
Thats when I got my first point and shoot, I think it was a Nikon L3AF or something like that, something chill when I tell you I had no idea what I was doing like I didn’t even know there was a little button at the bottom to roll film back MAN I didn’t even know I had to roll film back I just used to open the back and just take it out LOLL, until the guy at CVS told me you’ve messed up all the photos you took (rip to my first roll of film) So after that I just started looking into film and everything about it, even to this day I like experimenting with different types of film & exposures.
Overall, has it been relatively smooth? If not, what were some of the struggles along the way?
So in 2018, my camera broke a whole Nikon d3000 with a sigma 50 1.4 attached this was literally my go to camera like I shot anything to everything with this camera. I was in the hallways once again and it was me and a couple of friends, so this was when I was like 17 and we was messing around pushing each other around. I usually have my camera around my neck pointing towards the back idk why but thats how it would sit around my neck, so we rough housing and what not and I get bumped so my camera swings and hits his elbow and all you heard were two fatal cracks the first from the impact of elbow to lens and the finisher impact of camera to floor, literally a single tear left my face there’s a picture somewhere of me holding the broken camera (don’t look for it) I stopped shooting for the remainder of the year sigh rip to my Nikon.
Chino – what should we know? What do you do best? What sets you apart from the competition?
Primarily I’m a photographer but I also make clothes (@indeceitful) and I also help direct, I basically help wherever needed. I’m most proud of the people I’ve met along the way two years ago if you would of told me I would meet any of them I would probably cut you out of my life for deceiving me so horribly but I believe it’s my personality that sets me apart from other photographers from one of the guys I hang with to rappers I’m always going to treat you like a regular person because that what we are, plus I regularly talk to people as if we known each other for years idk it just happens naturally LOL.
What is “success” or “successful” for you?
Personally, I don’t believe I’ve done anything successful yet, but that’s just my viewpoint on things. I guess at the moment, I have three people I need to shoot before I believe I’m really successful Kanye, Young Thug, and any campaign for Rick Owen or Dior. To be hired by Rick would literally be a dream LOL.
Pricing:
- $100 a roll of film/30 photos
Contact Info:
- Website: www.ilytrey.com
- Phone: 240-393-7997
- Instagram: @ily2chino
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