Zhang Jingna

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name = Zhang Jingna


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birthdate = birth date and age|1986|5|4
location = Beijing, People's Republic of China
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field = Photography
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awards = awd|Singapore Master Photographer of the Year|2007

Zhang Jingna (zh-stp|s=张晶娜|t=張晶娜|p=Zhāng Jīngnuó; born May 4, 1986 in Beijing, China) is a photographer known widely on DeviantART as [http://zemotion.deviantart.com 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.

While in LASALLE, Jingna came across a camera, and began to learn its functions. 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, in late April 2008, she left both the national air rifle team and LASALLE 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 Singapore, Luxury, BeautyBlackBook, Men's Folio and Smitten.

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 [http://noah-kh.deviantart.com Kuang Hong] , a fellow artist whom she managed from the age of fifteen, as one of the influences and foundations of her artistic development.

External links

[http://zemotion.deviantart.com zemotion] on DeviantART