Creative Expos are one of the premier ways that ZO connects with artistic talent around the world, and this photo from one of our Teen Media Expo winners absolutely exemplifies the creativity, timely synchronicity and international goals that we strive to accomplish!

Ashley Jung – “Flip Flops in the Rain”

ASHLEY JUNG from Seoul, S. Korea was the Gold Winner in Photography for our 2017 Teen Media Expo. The Expo’s Theme was New World Identity and both our judges and all of us working with ZO fell in love with this shot. When we informed Ashley of her win, we were also delighted to give the 1st place matching gift to her school, Seoul Foreign School. This is the email from her teacher: “Dear ‘ZO’, I am Ashley’s art teacher (John Young, head of Art and Design at Seoul Foreign School) and I am delighted to hear the news of Ashley winning the award. Actually, we are going back to the Philippines this November to the place where the photo was taken and we will be working on a mural painting at one of the schools there, that is what Ashley wishes the money to go towards, so its a nice cycle of events, that the money will be going towards a painting the boy in the photo will be able to enjoy and brighten up the local community there.”

The Expo, Ashley finding our Expo, and her subsequent winning of the award, were all in perfect synch to bless the little boy in the photo. That is the purpose of ZO! We know that creativity can change the world and we just want to be a conduit for it.