Zainal & Zainal

11/11/2025

👋🏼 A lot of new faces here so I’m saying hi!

We understand. You need strong, emotive key visuals. Someone reliable. Someone who can deliver. Key visuals that creates trust and influence to your audience. Our biggest strength is in our tenacity to work for you and your timeline – and the range of work we do with our diverse team.

📷Who we are

Zainal & Zainal is a Singapore-based creative studio that crafts stories with visuals. We help brands like yours realise your full visual potential. We are focused on providing strategic content that enhances your customer journey.

✨What we do.

Specialising in authentic portraits, we combine our artistic practice with a keen commercial sense to deliver high-impact visuals for your business or organisation. We take on various commercial assignments, but not limited to: annual reports, commemorative books, marketing campaigns or corporate portraits.

After agreeing to the creative brief and quotation, some of the steps include scouting the location for ideas, a production schedule/timeline, actual photography tethered to a screen, image selection, post-production and sending the deliverables.

Experienced photographer, published author and TEDx Speaker, Zakaria Zainal leads this studio. Together with his team, they approach each project with each client as though it were their first.

26/01/2023

03/12/2022

Photographed Studio Gypsied’s Semula collection in early 2022.

The story of Semula started in late 2019 for a womenswear capsule that would reflect the spirit of the Malay Nusantara and Southeast Asian heritage. This region's traditional wear has long been regarded in the 20th century as occasion wear, reserved for momentous milestones.

Traditional Southeast Asian attire are known for their modest elegance. An example is the batik co-ords mirror these values, and consist of separates — fitted culottes and an easy-wearing top that go just as well together as they do on their own. More photographs in bio link.

01/12/2022

Photographed Professor Aarti Ramaswami, ESSEC Business School's dean of pre-experience programmes, for Financial Times publication Business Education: Masters in Management.

Programme providers are balancing student demand for an international education with overseas internships and study against the need to shrink their footprints. Essec has committed to reducing the carbon impact of student travel on programmes including its masters in management (MiM) by 30 per cent in three years.

“Part of the student experience and journey is having an international experience, and yet student travel and mobility is one of the higher sources of carbon footprint within the school,” says Ramaswami. “We’re making very conscious efforts to reduce that.”

More photographs in bio link.

12/12/2020

Blood Donors and Advocates: https://zainalandzainal.com/news/corporate-photographer-singapore-red-cross-akin

Integrated marketing agency AKÏN reached out to us recently to work on a 2021 Calendar project for the Singapore Red Cross.

It was a meaningful project as we learned about Red Cross’ initiatives to inspire their community of blood donors and maintain a healthy blood supply for Singapore’s blood needs.

We photographed a few blood donors and blood donation advocates, recognising them for their consistent efforts over the years. Find out more about how you can support blood donation in Singapore: https://redcross.sg/give-blood/how-else-can-i-help.html

11/12/2020

Interiors at Jalan Taman: https://lnkd.in/eyzC23U

There is something about putting together a house that it becomes a home. From understanding space to texture of the things needed to transform that place is a craft in itself.

We are fortunate to have Clarence from Supernormal Builds teach us how to see.

05/12/2020

Proctor & Gamble Singapore - Toyo Keizai: https://lnkd.in/gPfYEBA

Together with Aflo Images and Toyo Keizai Brand Studio, our studio photographed Mayu Arao and Ryu Uchida from Procter & Gamble Singapore.

Published on the Weekly Toyo Kezai, I enjoyed reading their conversation on business strategy and marketing for their organisation. Though it is written in Japanese, you can easily read the translation using a web translation service.

04/12/2020

Inside Singapore’s huge bet on vertical farming. More photographs: https://buff.ly/2I6lIm9

This assignment had us putting on our thinking caps and imagine a future of high-tech farming.

The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated food security at a global scale. And this MIT Technology Review article by Megan Tatum explores this issue with Singapore as a focus. The goal: to produce enough food to supply 30% of its own nutritional needs by 2030.

We spent time photographing high-tech farms VertiVegies and Comcrop as part of this feature.

19/11/2020

Our Studio photographed Royston Tan for Uniqlo and Aflo Images as part of a bigger campaign, “What will you wear tomorrow?”

Working with the talented Gladys Ng and her team, we spent almost a day with Royston famous for films such as "15", "12 Lotus", and "881". This year, he was the Creative Director of Singapore’s National Day Parade – a daunting task with the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The one thing I remembered from that day was his approach to making films and life: "In life, sometimes there isn’t a second chance, but in film I can give it a second chance."

Learn more with additional photographs below.

Zainal & Zainal Studio is a creative studio that crafts visually-led stories. Realise your brand’s visual potential. Specialising in photographing portraits and spaces, we combine our artistic practice with a keen commercial sense to deliver high-impact visuals for your business or organisation.

05/10/2020

We are 9! As always, we thank our clients, either in Singapore or all around the world, who took a chance on us and believe in the magic of creating something out of nothing. During this pandemic, one thing we wish for is that people stay healthy and are safe in the comfort of their loved ones.