
Meet Arina
I've always been drawn to detail. I grew up in a home where detail mattered. My mother had a way of noticing and caring for the small things, the kind of beauty most people walk past, and I think that's where my eye first started to form.
My father is a civil engineer, and I followed him into it. I studied civil engineering and spent years learning geometry, structure, and how separate pieces come together to hold something up. What stayed with me wasn't the math. It was the way engineering taught me to think about flow, about how people move through a space and how careful planning is what makes everything work in the end.
Somewhere between the two of them, I found what I actually wanted to do. I got my first camera in 2015 and started capturing moments, trying to hold onto the things worth keeping. Not long after, I went to film school, fell for the work of directors like Stanley Kubrick, and that opened up a whole new world of cinematography and video production for me.
In 2022 I moved to Canada. Studying digital marketing here gave me a second layer to build on, and over time I grew into a social media strategist and advisor as well as a photographer and filmmaker. Now I get to bring all of it together. The detail I learned at home, the structure I learned in engineering, and the storytelling I found behind a camera.
I've done a lot to get here, and I still feel like I'm just getting started.

Why Barclay
THE NAME
The name comes from Barclay Street, in Vancouver's West End — the street I lived on across three different homes, and the first place that really felt like mine in this city. I named the business after it before I knew what the word itself meant.
When I finally looked it up, it caught me off guard: Barclay means birch tree meadow. And the birch, I learned, is the first tree to grow back after a fire — a symbol of new beginnings, resilience, and light. It was everything I'd quietly hoped this chapter of my life would be. So the name stayed. And that feeling — finding the light, holding onto what matters — is exactly what I try to bring to the work.
Organizations I've worked with






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