Cintia Soto

Travel and Food Styling Photographer

Cintia Soto is a professional accountant with an international business management masters degree (MBA). Passionate in traveling, gastronomy and world culture. It was in 2011 when Cintia decided to join the world of photography after she was awarded as the best photography of the year in the category Landscape for the organization PPA.

Cintia lived in Italy for 10 years -which allowed her to develop a taste for the arts- her traveling and constant search for originality and the autochthonous living of the countries she visited motivated her to create a personal blog to share her experiences; this is how she starred in the fascinating world of professional photography.

In 2015 she was nominated as editor in chief of the Mexican recipes blog of EXPO MILAN in Italy; in addition she participated in writing and promoting the flavors of Mexico and some of this country's Chefs. This is where it begins her strong presence in the Valle de Guadalupe -Mexico's wine region-. Meanwhile she continued photographing her travels around the world and dedicating most of her time researching and making art through her photos of the Italian and Mexican gastronomy. 

You can find some of her work in places like: 

Travel & Leisure, Food and travel, Food and travel MX, Destinations of NY Times, Vogue Mexico, Cosmopolitan Italy, Business Class Italy, Southwest Airlines Magazine, Conde Nest Traveller UK, Mexico Desconocido etc.

Cintia was part of the book named “Mexicanas” in collaboration with writer Sergio Nuñez, photographing 28 chef women from Baja California and various articles for international blogs.

Cintia's art is also reflected in Chef Pía Quintanilla's cook book "El Arte De Lo Sencillo" In this culinary master piece, the photographer along with her magic lent, talent and expertise, was able to capture some of Mexico's most unique flavors.

Based in San Diego, California Cintia currently does food styling photography -mainly in restaurants and wineries- and at the same time continues to travel the world sharing pictures from her road trips across the US, Europe, India, Mexico, Central and South America delighting her thousands of followers in social media.

Founder of Epicure Pro - Gastronomy tours and Food and Travel photography workshops