Zhang Jingna

Zhang Jingna
Nationality	Singapore
Known for	Photography
Awards	Singapore Master Photographer of the Year 2007 British Professional Photography Awards - Overseas Fashion Photographer of the Year 2008 British Professional Photography Awards - Winner in Overseas Fashion and Contemporary Portraits 2008 Wedding and Portrait Photographers International - 3rd in Advertising/Fashion 2009

Zhang Jingna (simplified Chinese: 张晶娜; traditional Chinese: 張晶娜; pinyin: Zhāng Jīngnà; born May 4, 1988 in Beijing, China) is a photographer known widely on DeviantART as zemotion.

Born in the suburbs of Beijing to a sporting family, Jingna relocated to Singapore at the age of eight, where she attended Haig Girls' School. At the age of fourteen, nine months after picking up air rifle, Jingna broke a national record, and subsequently joined the national air rifle team. She was active in the team for six years, during which she left the prestigious Raffles Girls' School (Secondary) at the age of sixteen to pursue a degree in fashion design in LASALLE College of the Arts.

At the age of eighteen, Jingna picked up a camera. It soon became another means by which she could express herself, the way she did with traditional art. In time she found that she wanted to take her passion for photography higher, and hence, she left LASALLE in October 2007, and in January 2008, she left the national air rifle team to become a professional photographer.

Jingna has earned several awards, and in 2007 she became the youngest ever recipient of Associateship in the Masters Photographers Association. She was also awarded the Singapore Master Photographer of the Year award in 2007.

In the six months of her professional photography career, Jingna has worked with companies such as Mercedes Benz, Ogilvy & Mather Advertising (Taiwan), Architecture International, Wacom, and The Arts House. She has also produced fashion editorials for magazines such as Harper's Bazaar, L'Officiel, Luxury, Female, BeautyBlackBook, Men's Folio and Smitten.

In September 2008, Jingna had her first solo exhibition, Something Beautiful, at The Arts House in Singapore. Her photobook of the same title was also launched at the same time.

In October 2008, at the British Professional Photography Awards, she won in the categories of Overseas Fashion and Contemporary Portraits, and was also awarded Overseas Fashion Photographer of the Year. In November, she had an invited solo show of selected works, also curated by the Arts House, at Klee Bar.

Her works exude an ethereal air, and a dreamlike quality permeates her work, with a characteristic cinematographic leaning and a quiet confidence and maturity belying her age. Jingna’s works have also been described as dark and romantic, with a cinematic appeal.

Her inspirations are derived from people such as Peter Lindbergh and Yoshitaka Amano. Jingna also cites her friend Kuang Hong, a fellow artist whom she managed since the age of fifteen, as one of the influences and foundations of her artistic development.

External links

• Zhang Jingna's official website
• zemotion on Facebook
• zemotion on DeviantART

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