More about Jinaa K....
What do you love about your job?
There is a cancer patient there. Her close friend her dog helping her to be better by her side.
Walking a day, walking a week, walking a month and a year, her dog walks until she is better. By her side. (This is one of my beach photo's description.)
I love to take portraits, documentary. One day I took an old couple's photos and in a while after I heard that the old man passed away. I felt sad but I was grateful to have a chance to capture their memorable lifetime.
What types of shoots have you done and how did you make them special?
I do not make an setting up photographs as possible as much I try people feel natural like their ordinary day. I believe that is the best way of capturing their life moments. I am talking to them like an interviewer. I am interested in people's life moment. I think their face contains their life stories. People's face getting brighter when they share their beautiful moments. I love to catch it.
Awards, honors, and recognitions received
I won in a couple of photo competitions. "Multicultural Foods in BC" Photo contest 1st place_Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Vancouver 2013
"Travel photo contest" 1st place_Tourism Vancouver Island Magazine 2014
"Culture Shapes our Community" Photo contest 1st place_Black Press Community News Media and BCculturedays 2014
2014 Amateur Photographer of the Year Finalists_London Drugs, Black Press and the Abbotsford International Airshow BC
2015 2nd place prize for video contest_ All TV Vancouver
2016 Encouragement Prize for UCC Competition_Overseas Koreans Foundation
A fun fact about this photographer
I studied art and dances in high school and university. I just know when is the best time to catch the moments. I am taking photos almost every day. Mostly, of my children's portraits but I try to express as the portrait of our generation. I am a mother of four bright children. In past years, I challenge myself that my passion transfer to career. My four children are witnesses. They proud of their mother is a professional photographer.
There is an expression "mountain over mountains" in Korea. Do you want to just fall asleep in front of a big mountain or struggle to overcome adversity like a textbook? If you must live, you have to climb a mountain, cross a river and cross an obstacle. Who knows if there will be a new path make renewed someone's mind? I am climbing it named photography-mountain and its hiking just started to hard enough. I know that will not be stopped or gave up. I wish that I can meet people with my talent and passion for photography. I wish that my photographs touched and renewed their mind.