Lee Sedol, Art, & Go
Jingna Zhang | Fashion, Fine Art & Beauty Photography Blog
by Jingna
1w ago
Google’s interview with Lee Sedol: 8 years later: A world Go champion’s reflections on AlphaGo 8 years ago, Google Deepmind created AlphaGo—an AI that defeated the best human Go player in the world, and it shaped a lot of how I think of art and AI. In a new interview, Lee Sedol says that he wouldn't become a professional again if he had known of what an AI like AlphaGo can do today. This is so heartbreaking, I still can’t quite find the right words to describe how I feel. So I thought I’d write a little about Go and the Lee Sedol I knew.   Go board and stones shot on a Lytro camera ..read more
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Photobook Update: Image Shortlisting Complete!
Jingna Zhang | Fashion, Fine Art & Beauty Photography Blog
by Jingna
1y ago
21k+ images later and I’ve finally finished shortlisting new images for my photobook!! ?  Took 6 months and even though it’s just shortlisting, it’s been really hard. 1) it’s really was a lot of images, and 2) this past year has been filled with crazy things one after another, with my work being stolen, getting doxxed for it, nightmare productions, and more. Just trying to get through the final stretch now. Retouching hell here I come! ?‍♀️ Here are some random things and other things I’ve been up to these past few months~ Tonkatsu Curry Sausage buns makes me so happy See my shelf Blo ..read more
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Favorite Skincare Products ☀️
Jingna Zhang | Fashion, Fine Art & Beauty Photography Blog
by Jingna
1y ago
Sharing some of my favorite skincare products below! For reference, my skin is normal-combination with slight sensitivity, and allergic/reactive to a lot of common skincare ingredients. There are many great products at all price points out there, but these are some that ended up working best for me! Products range from luxury skincare to kbeauty. Also added some mini reviews next to each item! ❤️ Cleanse & Prep Cleansers for daily use: Shani Darden Cleansing Serum Tata Harper Purifying Cleanser - super interesting product, my holy grail cleanser ❤️ Toners for skin prep: Cl ..read more
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The Future of AI Art and Automation in Creative Industries
Jingna Zhang | Fashion, Fine Art & Beauty Photography Blog
by Jingna
1y ago
I’m building Cara, a new platform for artists. As we near 6k signups on the waitlist, I want to be transparent about my thoughts on AI, and why I want this to be more than just an alternative art platform. I’ve anticipated losing my job to AI for 6 years now. I expected style replication and high quality generative art to be accessible by 2021. I’m a year off, but I think it’s close enough. So I want to share what I think is next based on ML milestones and behind-the-scenes/B2B tech available to games, photography, and movie productions. My estimates for the near future— Once AI art’s ethical ..read more
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My Experiences in Fashion
Jingna Zhang | Fashion, Fine Art & Beauty Photography Blog
by Jingna
2y ago
  Swan.   After my post on quitting fashion, Vogue Singapore reached out to me to pen an essay about my time in the industry. I got to talk about my experiences as an Asian female fashion photographer and my hopes for the future. The article is now out in the May/June issue and also on their website. Because I went way over the word limit, the final published piece has been edited for length. I put down a lot of things I will probably never be able to make myself say again, so I wanted to share the full length original here. — I fell into fashion by chance. As a child, I grew up lov ..read more
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Asian Beauty Standards
Jingna Zhang | Fashion, Fine Art & Beauty Photography Blog
by Jingna
2y ago
Makeup look for camera test   I’ve been thinking about getting a medium format mirrorless camera and did some tests this past weekend with the Hasselblad and Fuji. Didn’t have any models so I did a makeup test and made a bunch of self portraits. Posted this selfie on my Instagram story, and received this comment which was honestly heartbreaking:     I’ve been thinking about this for a while now as I moonlight on a beauty creator account, but since I’m not a beauty creator on my main profile, I didn’t think I really had to say this for my audience. It’s sad to see this from one ..read more
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New Light ✨
Jingna Zhang | Fashion, Fine Art & Beauty Photography Blog
by Jingna
2y ago
New work with the stunning Emily Mei in Nusi Quero. For my new photobook (maybe!). Someone cast this girl as Tifa ? . I’ve been taking it slow after everything last year. Needed some time to collect myself and figure out what’s next. Blink and it’s already 2022, so happy belated new year! I want to focus on taking care of my health and the photobook this year. Almost recovered from my op now and have an autoimmune screening in March. Still want to do a magazine, but I can only do one thing at a time for now. Will try to exercise less self-loathing and worry less about my aesthetics not suit ..read more
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Quitting Fashion, My Story
Jingna Zhang | Fashion, Fine Art & Beauty Photography Blog
by Jingna
2y ago
    I decided to quit fashion so it’s probably fine to share this now. Some years ago I went to a portfolio review and had an encounter with an editor from a prestigious magazine. I don’t remember the exact words but the gist of it was like: “I’m sure this aesthetic—*gestures at my covers*—works back where you’re from. But these perfect brows, black hair, red lips—it’s just too much. It’s wrong for the western market.” I really appreciated them being candid and honest. But I was also like. Have you fucking seen me? Black hair red lips perfect brows. Just tell me my taste sucks or m ..read more
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Alodia Prints + Looking For Stylist!
Jingna Zhang | Fashion, Fine Art & Beauty Photography Blog
by Jingna
2y ago
Haven’t updated in soooo long but here’s an attempt at getting back into things! New Prints & Update Happy to share that my portraits of Alodia Gosiengfiao in kimono and hanfu are available at Darklight Art as prints for a limited time! The collection is curated by Nicola Mary Wyatt. Thank you for having me ❤️ It’s kind of crazy thinking back to when we did this shoot. I was all ready to start on an Asian-themed Motherland Chronicles series but promptly emoed my way into 2 years of hiatus ? Big sad but trying to get my shit together to shoot personal work again now. Working on personal s ..read more
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Instagram 2018 Best Nine
Jingna Zhang | Fashion, Fine Art & Beauty Photography Blog
by Jingna
3y ago
2018 felt very long and very short at the same time. It’s lovely to see a wrapup like this for Instagram, and think back on all the new experiences I’ve had and precious time people gave out of their days to look at these images ❤️ Thank you everyone for your support and kind words while I explored a darker personal series—Shedding—and went through some rough times. I hope I can do better next year in every way; to learn to hate myself and my work a little less, and learn to understand myself a little better.  From my Instagram (@zemotion): 1. @kom_i_jp for “Shedding” series in ..read more
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