What better way to kick off the new year than indulging a little more? Just before Christmas last year, I got together with the team at Mi Casa to work on their new food banner. As part of their menu refresh and the changes made by chef Manuel, Mi Casa were producing some new promo materials for a giant food banner and their facebook. We met up for an afternoon of food styling, photography, laughter, and of course the best […]
The third, and final, third of this year was a busy one. Although not finished yet, here are some shots from the time to date. This time I started with a fun personal project… And some non-traditional headshots with actress Samantha Daniel… A bike ride through Gangnam to get some skylines… Saw a rare beautiful sunset in Seoul… Finally got to shoot with the gentlemen from Ground Jam… Met up with Jaymie and Steve for another personal project… Had a […]
The second part of this year was to be a crazy time. I worked through personal projects, met some more wonderful people, and took on more jobs than I could handle (lesson learned). Somewhere in between all this we moved into a new apartment and Jeehe started working full time again. Join me for this, the second part of the rabbit hole. This began with one of my most ambitious images so far… Which was directly followed by almost missing […]
I’ve always found these year in review posts to be kind of cheesy, but it’s been a great exercise for me to go back through the year and see things from a bird’s-eye-view. So, I thought I’d share it with you! Hurtling through the year at break-neck speed doesn’t really give you a chance to look at the things you have done, and oftentimes you’ll feel like you’re getting nowhere. It’s a great thing to do no matter what industry […]
My good friend Simon Walsh from Tiwi Trade asked me to be the event photographer for the Savills Seoul Survivors Rugby Football Club’s Movember effort this year. His team had worked very hard through the month of November to craft some of Seoul finest mustaches. From the dirty biker to the non-existent, their fine facial growth was modeled after historical masterpieces by porn stars and Chopper Reid. The month of growth and fund-raising culminated in the annual shave off, where […]
When Craftworks first opened at the foot of Namsan, Groove magazine sent me down there to get a few food and interior shots for the magazine. Since that time, I’ve been back to work on menu photos and interiors for Dan on a number of occasions. The great food and drinks usually mean that I go back for more than just the shoots, but it’s always fun working with Dan and his team. So, when Joshua Hall from Wine Korea […]
I have had the pleasure and privilege of working with our premiere local English magazine, Groove, in its various iterations and across more editors than I can count. My very first assignment was from the then music editor, Summer Walker. She sent me out on location to photograph a group of members from various punk rock acts here in Seoul. It was my first editorial assignment, and to date the one that has educated me the most about the way […]
Rosanna contacted me in September looking for a Seoul pre-wedding photographer to do something “not cheesy”. Rosanna and Andrew met under what they consider fairly unlikely circumstances. In a small town in Canada where neither of them had expected anything life changing to happen. An item left at a party to be returned, a second meeting, and Rosanna and Andrew never looked back. They have spent time apart, respectively pursuing their lives in England and Australia, before coming to Korea […]
I have been working with Judy Kay for nearly three years now on her various events with ANZA Korea and when she contacted me looking for a family photographer before she left Seoul, I could hardly resist being part of that! Judy and Martin arrived in Seoul 5 years ago for what was to be a short posting, but they extended multiple times to continue enjoying their lives here in Korea. When they first arrived, one of the first places […]
The poor blog of this Korea photographer has suffered a lot of neglect recently, and it’s time to get back on track. One of the reasons for this is that a lot of my recent work has been time sensitive, and needed to stay under wraps until it was officially released. One such job was a recent musical by CJ Entertainment called 총각네 야채가게 (my translation – The Bachelors’ Greengrocer). CJ contacted me to shoot the cast of the musical […]