From Cian,

I hate what photography has become in the modern era. Event photography has become people’s only access to an age-old artistic process.

Even the people who offer photography as a service usually buy expensive camera equipment, take 1,000 photos for each event, outsource editing, and return 100 photos to the client.

What was once a language of emotion and light has been reduced to transaction. True photography has become exclusive. And when art becomes exclusive, the world forgets how to feel.

Affinity exists to shift that. To let art breathe again—on walls, in rooms, in hearts. To turn photography into something passive that sits on a wall, into a signature that elevates an entire room.

So, here are a few of my closest friends—seen not just through a lens, but through the quiet poetry of knowing them.