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 […]
At a recent small flash workshop I ran for Flash Light Expeditions here in Seoul, I encouraged one of my students, Damari, to introduce himself to a man sitting closeby our location who he wanted to photograph. That man was Woosik Park, and was more than happy to come over for a portrait in our three light setup of the day. We exchanged numbers after the shoot and kept in touch so that Damari and I might organise a full […]
Last, I had the pleasure of being Nadya and Guhya’s wedding photographer. I have a great deal of respect for those who choose to get married in Seoul. It can be difficult to organise a wedding that breaks out of the mould here. Nadya and Guhya did just that. They personalised their wedding and made a wonderful day for everyone. The wedding party consisted of both Nadya and Guhya’s families who flew in from Indonesia and Kazakhstan for the ceremony, […]
Having the chance to work as an event photographer has its perks at times. Last week, I spent the weekend with the Beats by Dre team making portraits at Ansan Valley Rock Festival. This week, I was privileged to join the Glenlivet Korea team and the Davidoff Korea team for a tasting and awareness event at Burn in Hal, Gyeongridan. I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect as this was the first time I had photographed a tasting event, but […]