2016

2016 SHOWREEL

10:24 AM

Hello again, everyone! How you guys are doing? 
It's almost the end of the year again, so it means that it's time for RECAP of what happened in 2016.

First, I would like to thank you for all your supports and likes in my Instagram. My Instagram is flooding with your likes and comments. I really appreciated it :)

Well, since I'm no longer working in the studio again (I'm an office lady now :p), I don't really have much free time for my personal work. However, I'm trying to still do it as often as I can because it's my passion and my second job too. I'll stay creative :)

OK, let's move on.

Since I moved to Seoul, I got a lot of chance to work with foreign models. Don't judge me, but I do prefer foreign models than the Asian. Although, many Korean model agencies has recruited a lot of unique faces, but I feel like Europeans have a lot more variant and diverse face features, each of them are different. And of course, another good point, that their face features match with my concept. So, on this moment, I would like to introduce you the foreign models that I've been working with in 2016.

Emma (Netherland)


Iida (Sweden)

Alexa (Russia)

Lisa (Norway)

Embla (Norway)


My roommate, Arianna (Italy)

Tabya (German)

Lily (France)

Sasha (Russia)

Tschennie/Jenny (German)

Pretty, aren't they? Honestly, I really enjoyed taking pictures with them because not only you get to know them and get your artwork, but you also learn each other's cultural background. We talked about our countries' political condition, cultural issues, etc. It was mind-blowing. There are things that you will not know about a certain country other than having conversation with the natives. Media are sometimes fake and not digging deep enough. 

Other than working with foreign models, this year I got a chance to meet, take pictures, collaborated, and be friends with beauty bloggers/Youtubers. I met these two beautiful ladies from my friend, Musa, who used to shoot pictures with one of them. 

Let me introduce you...


Sunny Dahye

Kim Dao

Our Christmas collaboration

This powerful duo has been friends for 6 years (?) and they always together. I will link their Youtube channels below. As some of you may know, Sunny is a Korean who used to live and grew up in Indonesia. She speaks Indonesian like a native, like me. I still remember the first time I met her, I was shocked of how fluent she is. It feels like me talking to my Indonesian friends, not to a Korean. And Kim, she's a Vietnamese who was born and grew up in Australia and currently living in Japan. Three of us are the same age, the 90s, so no wonder that every time we meet, we just talk shit and sometimes having deep conversation (just because we like to criticize haha). I'm lucky to be one of their friends.

Sunny's Youtube here
Kim's Youtube here


So yeah.. I guess it's almost the end of my not-so-long post. I really want to post everything here but I just don't have time and energy to do it. 

Make sure you follow my Instagram here for my artwork updates.

I will launch my official website SOON (I really hope I can do it fast), so bare with me!
To end this post, I would like to share my favorite pieces from 2016.


Inspired by Shakespeare's Sonnets
Model: Lisa

Based on Sophie from Hayao Miyazaki's "Howl's Moving Castle"
Model: Alexa


I hope you had a wonderful 2016 and a better year next year.


Happy New Year 
and 
Welcome 2017!




2016

3 Things That I Learned From Working in a Photography Studio in Korea

10:29 PM


Hey everyone!
It seems that I abandon this blog for quite a long time. I think it's the time for me to get back here and give you updates. Well, from the previous posts, I'm always give a short updates of what's happening in my life and also little notice about my artworks. I guess I should tell you all in details here and share A LOT of stories here.
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I don't know but lately I've been thinking to myself about sharing stories of my life in social media is necessary or not. Coz I know myself that I'm not a celebrity or whatsoever and people won't notice me and will not care of what happened to me. Right? Hahaha. Well, on the other hand, sometimes I feel that maybe my story will inspire people who read it, or maybe think about it and take the value from what I did. So... yeah.. I still have no idea and no particular strong reason why I should share my life online. Actually, I don't know how to write a proper blog post hahaha. So maybe that's why I'm afraid to share my feelings and thoughts online coz I think I might lead people to misunderstand me. Oh well, who cares anyway.

OK, shall I begin?

So, in the previous post, I mentioned a bit that I'm working in a photography studio in Seoul right? Well, I quit since late June and now I'm focusing, once again, in my personal freelance career as a photographer, still, in Seoul. 

The lesson that I learnt from 4 months of working in a studio in Korea are too many to explain here but I will share some points.

1. Miscommunication is a REALLY BIG PROBLEM.

I learnt that no matter how fluent we speak a language, even though you are native in your own language, sometimes we can still have communication problem. Then, just imagine you are working in a country where their language is neither English or your native language. Language barrier is inevitable, especially in working environment. Well, since this is about Korea, I can say that there is a gap between daily conversation language and the working one. Somehow it's more formal and it's more.. how to say this.. high-class? Like.. the terms they use for work is really different from the basic vocab that we know. So yeah.. it did happened to me while I'm working in the studio. 

2. People talking behind your back is NORMAL.

Nope, it's not about me. It's about everyone else around me, especially people who we worked with in the studio. I can say it is a NORMAL thing for people talking bad stuffs and backstabbing each other coz this is supposed to be an entertainment business. They spread gossips everywhere, to whoever. Maybe because I never see it myself before, how people who work in the studio talking about a certain celebrity and how bad they are, I was so fascinated that I ended up eaves-dropping them. HAHA. Well, even though I can't understand most of their conversation, but at least I know who they're talking about. I will not reveal it here coz it's really bad. 

3. Time = Money is SUPER TRUE!

Since I'm working with a non-fixed office hour, I can't get any outside job other than my work in studio. That's why, during those 4 months, I didn't do a lot of personal works coz sometimes I also need to work on the weekends too. Now that I quitted the job, I realised how I waste a lot of time in the studio for doing nothing. For studio job, we don't always have photo shooting everyday, so sometimes we just do nothing in the studio or maybe go somewhere. However, as an assistant, I need to tag along my boss all the time, well not really, most of the time. So I just depend on the salary that my boss give me that time, even though I can gain more during my free times. 

So yeah.. I think that's all that I wanted to share about my experience on working in a studio in Korea. Actually it differs to each of us. Maybe you will not experience these things, but this is what I feel during the 4 months of working. I hope it helps to answer your curiosity of my life here.

Don't forget to stalk my Behance and Instagram for more updates on my artworks.

Bye for now :)

2015

It's TIME!

1:05 PM

January 1st, 2016.
Let's have some recap on what happened to me in 2015.

1. Another conference to attend. This time, much more memorable.






☑ First time got invited to dinner with the Professors and researchers
☑ Got more new ACADEMIC friends


2. Solo travelling to Japan (the country I included in my bucket list and I TRULY LOVE). More photos and stories here.




☑ wanderlust-ing


3. Cut my hair short, then turned it to pink purple color.



☑ pink purple hair

4. Published my very first collection in LINE DECO as an artist.


5. Produced 2 personal lyrical artworks.

Once Upon a Dream
Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again
6. 1st THESIS DEFENSE! My Master degree ends soon. It was so fast, 2 years past too quick. Sorry, no picture.

7. And, a lot of personal life things going on. Up and Down.

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Finally, I can leave 2015 with no regrets. The year of suffering has come to an end.


 IT'S TIME!

for this BLACK BUTTERFLY to show her beautiful wings and fly away.


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