The Creatives Project - Photography Podcast

the last episode of szn 1!! on today's pod, felicity (@felicityzhangphotography) talks about her one year journey in podcasting and 5 lessons she's learned from self-employment- from gaining self-confidence in personal projects, to goal/routine setting, to navigating doubt as a freelancer. this one's a cheesy one :')--------------------let’s connect // instagram: @felicityzhangphotographywebsite: felicityzhangphotography.comappreciate you all so much, thank you for listening!! CHEERS TO SZN ONE <3 music by @ryzy.a

on today's pod, felicity (@felicityzhangphotography) speaks with Henrik (@olss.onfilm) about the good and bad of sharing your photography on social media; the pressures on posting your work online, the void of Instagram Reels, and how social media can influence the process of image making. we also chat about the NYC film community and all about henrik's journey as a primarily landscape film photographer!About Henrik: My name is Henrik and I am a hobby film photographer based in New York City. Although I only started film less than 2 years ago, I have always enjoyed taking landscape and street photography having grown up and traveled across Asia and Europe. It has allowed me to expand my creativity and meet an amazing community around the world :)THANK YOU TO HENRIK FOR BEING ON THE POD<33--------------------let’s connect // instagram: @felicityzhangphotographywebsite: felicityzhangphotography.comappreciate you all so much, thank you for listening!! <3 music by @ryzy.a

on today's pod, felicity (@felicityzhangphotography) explores all the ways one can shoot film on a budget- from shooting half frame film, to developing your own film, to being more intentional about your cameras/film stocks, and just fully embracing the "stay broke, shoot film" mindset. --------------------let’s connect // instagram: @felicityzhangphotographywebsite: felicityzhangphotography.comappreciate you all so much, thank you for listening!! <3 music by @ryzy.a

on today's pod, felicity (@felicityzhangphotography) speaks with sara of Deerah (@deerah.co) about embodying the spirit of Palestine through handmade embroidery (tatreez), the process of supporting women embroiderers in refugee camps, and how sara, as an creative, channels history + emotions through her art. About Sara: Sara Jayyusi is the founder of Deerah (@deerah.co), a small tatreez design house that sheds light on the art of Palestinian embroidery and challenges deep-seated prejudices against Palestinian culture.website: https://deerah.co/thank you sara for being on the pod, and being so vulnerable. your vulnerability is power. <33 free palestine, now and always.--------------------let’s connect // instagram: @felicityzhangphotographywebsite: felicityzhangphotography.comappreciate you all so much, thank you for listening!! <3 music by @ryzy.a

on today's pod, felicity (@felicityzhangphotography) recaps her 5 month solo trip in asia, discussing the ins and outs of solo travel, including what being a female solo traveler is like, homecoming in going back to your parents' home country, and and tips when planning your own solo trip! --------------------let’s connect // instagram: @felicityzhangphotographywebsite: felicityzhangphotography.comappreciate you all so much, thank you for listening!! <3 music by @ryzy.a

on today's pod, felicity (@felicityzhangphotography) talks about fully living your life in order to allow your art to flourish. she speaks on the romanticization of "the grind" as a freelancer, the importance of finding inspiration in mundane + everyday life, and how she created a more sustainable mindset in the future of photography. --------------------let’s connect // instagram: @felicityzhangphotographywebsite: felicityzhangphotography.comappreciate you all so much, thank you for listening!! <3 music by @ryzy.a

in this guest episode of the Creatives Project, Felicity (@felicityzhangphotography) interviews Chloe (@haregoat_tat), a Shanghai-based illustrator and tattoo artist. we talk about chloe's experience training as an tattoo apprentice in soho, to her unique art journey now in graphic design + the tattoo industry in asia. chloe's unique approach to blending mediums and embracing new beginnings is a testament to her unique multidisciplinary approach to harnessing creativity<3 about chloe:my name is Chloe, and I am an illustrator and a tattoo artist. I‘ve been interested in art since I was a kid, and it is almost an undoubted thing for me to pursue art. Thanks to my parents, I went to an art school in New York City called the School of Visual Arts and did my illustration major for 4 years. During school, I was constantly trying to find my art style and figure out my future art career. My illustrations are always line-work-based, using figurative lines to depict objects or elements to tell a story. When I had just gotten into college, I was still using a lot of non-digital mediums, and I gradually shifted to using pencil or ink pen to draw and digital mediums to paint. It gave a lot of new possibilities to my art works.The topics of my art, a lot of them or almost all of them, are related to humanities, like wars, human trafficking, the relationships between humans and other animals on the planet, etc. I really hope my works can speak my thoughts, and if one day they could make the world a little better. It would really satisfy me.After I graduated, I found it hard to survive as a freelance illustrator, so I started to look for another way out. That’s when I started my tattoo career. My tattoo flash sheets are still line-work-based. I really enjoy tattooing, especially when people tattoo my own flash or let me have the freedom to design what they want. Converting people’s ideas Into images, and people trust me to tattoo them. It is so much responsibility and so rewarding.As I grow up, now, I am no longer constrained by finding my own style; it is more important to create. Whatever you make is your children, is a part of you or a reflection of yourself. I feel extremely grateful for my capability to make art, and I hope I can make art my whole life.THANK YOU CHLOE FOR BEING ON THE POD AND GIVING ME A SICK TATTOO <33 hopefully see you in nyc soon! --------------------let’s connect // instagram: @felicityzhangphotographywebsite: felicityzhangphotography.comappreciate you all so much, thank you for listening!! <3 music by @ryzy.a

on today's pod, felicity (@felicityzhangphotography) speaks with Tony (@bluuured) about the challenges and joys of moving abroad, and how that changes you as an artist. Tony recently made the move from Paris to Taipei, and we discuss everything from culture differences, to how his photography projects have evolved with the move, to finding a creative community in a new place. About Tony: I am Antoine (or Tony), a 33yo  french photographer from Paris. I am currently living in Taipei (Taiwan) where I share my time between studying Mandarin and developing my photography projects. I am now specialized in portrait, street and documentary photography.After a first career in the consulting industry (around 8 years), I switched about a year and a half ago to a freelance photographer path. Even though I started my journey into photography through street photography (I keep doing it on a daily basis thu), documentary and portrait photography are the disciplines which led me to take this decision. In 2021, after Covid happened, we started with one of my best friends a small media online portraying people coming from the Asian community in France, in order to deconstruct stereotypes and provide inspiring life stories. Doing so, we ended learning much more than expected on ourselves and our communities’ origins (IG : @lisezlalegende).This project and the inspiring people I met through it helped me understand that I was being truly myself when I was doing photography and that I could potentially pursue a professional career. That’s how in September 2022, I finally decided to quit my last job for photography, and I have since then realized a really large variety of projects from live music and events photography to documentary, portrait, brand or even food photography.Being for the moment based in Taiwan and enjoying my life over there, I hope that I will be able to continue documenting the extremely rich Taiwanese culture; and being convinced that we constantly evolve, that I will keep developing my approach to photography through other projects.Inspiring Photographers Mentioned: Fashion photography : Goldie Williams (@goldiewilliams.co)Documentary : William Keo (@William.keo)Street photography : o The OG’s : Depardon, Doisneau, Vivian Mayero Recently : Billy Dinh (@billydeee), Guillaume Lavrut (@guillaumelavrut)Our small media : @LisezlalegendeTHANK YOU TONY FOR BEING ON THE POD<33 miss u and visit nyc soon!!!--------------------let’s connect // instagram: @felicityzhangphotographywebsite: felicityzhangphotography.comappreciate you all so much, thank you for listening!! <3 music by @ryzy.a