[6] Probably due to her keen interest and achievements with the medium, she left Lasalle and the national team to pursue photography full-time in 2008.

[11] Zhang is influenced by people such as Peter Lindbergh, John William Waterhouse, Yoshitaka Amano and Zdzisław Beksiński.

With the project she sought to explore subjects she loved during her childhood, including themes from anime, manga, and Japanese fantasy art.

[18] In posts uploaded to Facebook and Instagram, Zhang stated that her experiences with racism and xenophobia had prompted her to leave the industry.

[19] In 2022, her portraits of actress Michelle Yeoh were featured for Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People and the cover photos for a profile for The Hollywood Reporter.

[20] In May 2022, Zhang was alerted by Luxembourgish fans about possible copyright infringement of her work.The student and oil painter Jeff Dieschburg had used one of her photos as reference for the left panel of his diptych painting "Turandot".

[23] As response to the accusations and to counteract the massive hate and death threats that he received, Dieschburg refused the prize money and removed the diptych from the exhibition.

In May 2024 the Luxembourg district court rendered its verdict: Zhang's intellectual property rights were recognized, and the left panel of Dieschburg's work Turandot was condemned as plagiarism.

[28][29] On January 2, 2023, Zhang opened Cara, an art platform designed to prevent AI-scraping, to public testing.

The site quickly rose in popularity around June 2024, growing from around 40,000 users to 650,000 in a single week, as artists migrated to avoid having their art trained on without proper procedures for compensation.