Nataliya Zapolina: Singapore, 28 March 2009

My first shoot in Singapore was with Ukrainian Nataliya Zapolina from Mannequin, with Aaron Kok and Clarion Wee as stylists. It was unfortunate that I was unable to contact the makeup artist because of some mixups so Nataliya did her own makeup this time and the results were fantastic. Luck was still on our side that day.

Even though I’ve been to Singapore plenty of times, looking for a shooting location somewhere besides my hometown has always proved to be a challenge. Aaron was incredibly helpful in helping me with the locations and we decided to go with the old Supreme Court. That place has been used probably a gazillion times by other photographers for wedding, fashion, etc etc but heck I liked the place so why not? I took it on as a challenge to show it differently through my eyes.

I love having proper stylists on the shoot because they always have everything possible with them! <3

As you all know, I tend to (unintentionally) make the models suffer one way or another and this time it was putting Nataliya in heavy fabrics under the unforgiving tropical sun. According to Aaron, the pained look we got out of Nataliya worked well with the whole mood of the shoot and again, it was well worth it. We had a number of curious spectators and there was a wedding shoot going on at the same time and apparently the photographer berated the party to “work it like the pros!” after watching us hog up all the space. So cute.

Her bone structure is simply amazing.

My favourite series of shots.

Amazing colonial architecture for a European feel.

Feeling the burn.

This time we also have a short behind the scenes video for the world to see

We felt nauseous at the end because of the noontime sun but that’s alright…. right guys? Right? Hehe.

Sweaty and exhausted. Clarion, Nataliya, me and Aaron.

Posted: June 30th, 2009 | Category: Photoshoots | Tags: Photoshoots, Singapore | 3 Comments »

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