Yay I've finally got another year-end wrap-up!
Wow, I can't believe the last was 2009. Truthfully speaking, I wrote one for 2010, it was filled with awesomeness (including my lifetime's only fangirl moment when taken by surprise meeting Hagio Moto)—...actually, I just discovered that that post has been sitting in my drafts, with pictures and all, figured I might as well post it: 2010.
And here be the highlights of my 2012:
January
- Shot for Clé de Peau Beauté's 30th Anniversary Celebration Exhibition
- Interviewed by National Archives of Singapore (I pray if anyone uses it for anything in the future I'd be forgiven for my atrocious Chinese)
- Zink editorial "It Blooms In The Night" published
- Wedding & Travel #22 out on stands! We shot the cover story in Fregate Island, Seychelles, I had my own villa with infinity pool and all that stuff! (This would've been in my 2011 post, but it doesn't exist so allow me to wax-lyrical a little)
- Featured on Expert Photography -- Top 20 Young Photographers 2012, though I definitely don't feel so young anymore
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| My photograph for Clé de Peau Beauté |
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| Zink: It Blooms in the Night |
Febuary
- Yoshitaka Amano-inspired self portraits
- Held my first workshop (sold out in 24 hours! :D)
- Fashion and beauty editorials in Elle Singapore! (Hit the Road, Touch-me Tresses)
- Elle Awards feature in Elle Singapore! (For winning Photographer of the Year in Nov 2011)
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| My Amano-esque self portrait series! I was so beatific when I saw those photos on my computer screen~ |
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| Demo during my first workshop! |
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| A photo of the trophy plaque's prettier than an article right? Pretty ♥ |
March
- Editorial marathon in Vietnam with Phuong My -- we produced AND shot 6 stories in 7 days, including:
- My first Harper's Bazaar cover shoot featuring Vietnamese actress Ngo Thanh Van and—
- A shoot in Cambodia! Visited Angkor Wat, it was awesome.
- Came across one of my photos of Rain for Anchor Beer in Cambodia on a billboard! Kickass feeling.
- Photos of Michelle Phan!
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| Michelle! Our shoot was done end Dec but then I never had my 2011 post so ._. |
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| Angkor Wat! It was so grand. |
April
- Represented in US by Kramer+Kramer in New York
- Saw L'arc~en~Ciel in Singapore, I even met my own fans (And now that I've seen Luna Sea, X Japan, Laruku, and Dir en grey, I think I'm just missing Gackt and my Live experience would be complete haha)
- Showed in Clé de Peau Beauté's "L'Art de La Radiance" Exhibition in Hong Kong
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| On the left is cover of the limited edition book commemorating Clé de Peau's exhibition. A very stunning volume I'm proud to be a part of. |
May
- 10 years on deviantART! Check out my post on the journey.
- Featured in Her World Singapore -- "25 Scene Shakers Under 25"
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| Holy shit 10 years on dA. Where has my youth gone to?! |
June
- Shot chef Janice Wong for DBS Bank in Singapore
- Visited deviantART HQ with my team Infinity Seven! Fun times.
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| The ads ran on all sorts of medias including TV! Was also cool to receive my bank letters with my work featured on its flyers. |
July
- Filming for Asia's Next Top Model
- My first Harper's Bazaar cover published! For Harper's Bazaar Vietnam's 1st anniversary issue
- Featured in FHM Singapore -- "Girls on Games"
- Showed in Harper's Bazaar exhibition "Fashion in Focus" in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Interviewed by Singaporean art blog The Art Train
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| My Harper's Bazaar Vietnam cover story! |
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| Story cover |
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| Issue cover |
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| Harper's Bazaar exhibition "Fashion in Focus" in Kuala Lumpur |
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| FHM Singapore |
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| Interviewed by The Art Train |
August
- SingaporeBrides editorial "Song to the Siren"
- Visited Stockholm, WCS Sweden!
- One of my longest interviews, for Cadred.org -- "Zhang Jingna: Aesthetic Manifestation"
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| SingaporeBrides editorial, love how I always get to experiment and direct these shoots |
September
- Busy putting my paperworks together for O-1 visa application~
October
- Started psychotherapy
- 7 Honorable Mentions in International Photography Awards for Fine Arts: Portraits, Fine Arts: Nudes, and Advertising: Fashion
- The beginning of a series of vacations starting with Lijiang and Shangri-la :D
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| Bluemoon Valley in Lijiang |
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| Ahaha sheep in Shangri-la across from Banyan Tree. I chased them all away taking photos XDDD |
November
- Got out of depression!
- Hokkaido (Hell Valley!) and Osaka for the first time
- Met up with Sugizo in Osaka!
- Judge on The Big Shot Season 3
- Still working on my visa
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| Hell Valley in Hokkaido, so badass! |
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| Got to drop by Luna Sea's gig at Zepp in Osaka and hang out with Sugizo a little, new shoot hopefully in 2013! |
December
- Fujiwara Kaoru-inspired shoot
- One of my favourite stories, for Harper’s Bazaar Vietnam, Nu Renaissance Aristocracy, published
- Visited Versailles, Louvre, Venice and Rome for the first time! More things off my bucket list yay
- O-1 visa for the US approved! Woot.
- Asia's Next Top Model episode aired! Winning shot will be used as ad for TRESemmé
- Moved to New York
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| Nu Renaissance Aristocracy for Harper’s Bazaar Vietnam, super love this story! Linh does hair magic. |
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| Europe! I took so many photos yet in the end it was still easiest to just use those from my iPhone OTL |
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| Aired Dec 30th, the beauty episode of Asia's Next Top Model where I was the photographer :D Photo of the week winner was Sofia Wakabayashi, my fav from the shoot ♥ |
And and! Last but not least, quick overview of my hair this year in chronological order:
Some of you might remember, my hair was this long before, it was quite a change for me.
I cut it off on new year's eve of 2012, a new start and all that, right? Then I got to play around with the colours all year. Awesome. And so many many thanks to Delos and Yvonne at Sabun Cabane for taking such good care of my hair! I'm gonna miss you ladies. ♥
I want to make another post with some inspirational reads from this year at a later time, I'll end this post here. Also feel free to check out my Inspirational Reads 2012 post here for what inspires me: http://www.zhangjingna.com/blog/2013/01/inspirational-reads-2012.html
In closing I'd like to once again thank everyone for cheering and supporting me this year and, I'm so grateful to still be here.
I'm super excited to start 2013, shoots and personal projects and all.
I wish everyone's new year will be something amazing, let's work hard for our dreams together.