It's no surprise that Jun would begin his illustrious career by photographing beautiful models. Prior to becoming a professional photographer, his drawings and paintings, as an artist, were mostly inspired by such beauty. 

Persuaded by a model and talent agent who was impressed after seeing photographs made of a friend and model, Jun embarked on what he thought would be a short-term creative challenge. Boy, was he in for a surprise.

Within a year, and without formal training, he quickly became a "go-to" photographer and, since then, has been a highly recommended model and talent photographer who's AGENCY-APPROVED by all major and top model and talent agencies in Michigan and several across the country.

His 25 years of experience have entailed photographing thousands of clients as well as providing a full range of post services such as MODEL'S COMPS (composite cards), ACTOR'S and TALENT HEADSHOTS (talent cards), PORTFOLIOS and CONSULTATION.

Though he now shoots a broad range of subjects, he still enjoys working with models and talent, both amateur and professional, finding joy in helping "newbies" to the modeling and acting industry by steering them on the right path to success.

From babies, preteens, teens, adults, to silver-haired beauties and hunks - he's worked with them all.

• Models • Actors • Talent • Commercial • Corporate • Promotional • Senior Pictures • Personal • Dating Sites • Social Media

If you haven't noticed by now, everyone today is a photographer.

Affordable cameras, immediate results, ease of website creation, an abundance of online instruction, and boom, you're now a bonafide pro shooter.

Well, it doesn't usually work that way. Much like a gamer who flies a jet in a combat video game, it would be foolish to entrust that player into flying a real $18.8 million F-16 fighter aircraft to war without adequate training or experience.

In Jun's line of work, he gets a lot of aspiring models and actors who've hired cheap online photographers only to find out when attempting to sign with a model and talent agency that the photographs were far from marketable. Fortunately, some of these individuals still had a budget to do it right.

Unfortunately, many aspiring models and talent who were rejected by an agency either formed a negative opinion of the industry, themselves or had depleted their budget.

Jun feels most of the problems are simply due to the photographer's lack of insight into the modeling and acting industry or are results from ulterior motives that aren't conducive to the client's success.

He says, "Do it right the first time. Yes, it could cost more. But doing it wrong or having a mediocre strategy can be more expensive for you in the long run."

EDITORIAL FASHION

Photography + Art Direction + Design + Illustration: Jun Pino

Hair + Make-Up: Tracee Miller

EDITORIAL FASHION and PROMOTION

Promo piece for legendary NY Hair & Make-Up Artist to the stars, Wendy Whitelaw. With her work gracing the pages and covers of numerous major fashion magazines from the 70s to the 90s, the demand for Wendy's skills grew even more after her brief hiatus in the early 2000s. Personally selecting Jun to carry out her vision, he was tasked to visually convey her always stylish and innovative talent providing a fresh approach to her work in the new millennium.

Photography + Art Direction + Design + Illustration: Jun Pino

Hair + Make-Up: Wendy Whitelaw

Before his discovered love for photography, there was creative direction, graphic design, illustration, and fine arts; areas of expertise that Jun had received a BFA degree, from the prestigious College for Creative Studies, and is still being utilized in his business.

To this day, many are quite surprised after discovering Jun is a self-taught photographer. He's a one stop power house of creativity loved by clients for the added value he brings to any project at hand. Jun explains, "If I know I can make something better, why not do it? Photography is just another paintbrush in my coffee can of brushes."

Jun's earliest memory involving art rewinds to a time before kindergarten. He's always loved art, even when most of his schooling years were geared to becoming a doctor like his father who, coincidentally, is quite an artist himself.

Today, mixed-media is Jun's preferred style. It dominates his work created for art shows, commissions, as well as those made specifically for organizations that hold annual auctions funding cures for ailments such as aids and cancer. For all the years he's contributed, his works of art have garnered some of the highest amounts of money and is continuously sought after.

He does admit, though, that he wishes he had more time to create and contribute, saying that the time he uses is mostly the hours after 12:00am leaving him with very little sleep. Jokingly, he says, "Staying up late and pulling all-nighters didn't end in art school." 

His passion and sacrifices have held true most of his life inspiring him to create a mantra that goes: 

ART IS MY STRENGTH AND MY WEAKNESS - Jun Pino

EDITORIAL FASHION

Photography + Art Direction + Design + Illustration: Jun Pino

Hair + Make-Up: Georgia Mitropoulos

Yes... even when he's "off-duty" he's still taking pictures, sans the heavy equipment though. Let's just say, he loves technology and his smart-phone…sometimes.

With a mix of silly humored inanimate objects, parodies, amazing scenery, and thought provoking visuals, it's hard to believe that his specialty is photographing people.

He does say, "Just because a doctor specializes in something, doesn't mean he/she is clueless in doing general doctor stuff. Besides, shooting spur-of-the-moments can be super fun."

BEAUTY IS ANYWHERE YOU BELIEVE IT TO BE - Jun Pino

au•ral /ˈôrəl/ adjective: of or relating to the ear or the sense of hearing.

ac•tion /ˈakSH(ə)n/ noun: exciting or notable activity.

Combined, it's what's happening with the Detroit music scene. Historically, the city has been the birthplace of musical styles that have influenced the world. Sound and music are sweet treats that inspire Jun. Photographing great talent who create such aural beauty is the icing.