Korea has been referred to as the “hermit kingdom”. However, how fair is this comment? It’s often condescendingly used to reinforce ideas of an outsider’s concept of the insularism of Korean society. However, taken as a whole, the peninsula has embraced, for better or worse, almost everything that the world has had to offer.

There’s intensity […]

I made a fortunate discovery this week after stumbling into a cosy gallery cafe in Seoul’s film and photography district, Chungmuro.

There was a book in the lobby by a South Korean photographer that I had not heard of. Noh Soon Taek is a photojournalist who has been tackling the issues surrounding the division of the […]

Below is the first in a series of weekly edits. As I mentioned last week, I have begun to work with a picture editor and approach the images in terms of weekly “units”, rather than on a day to day basis.

The series below was made over the period of 2003 - 04, in Seoul, Pusan […]

Last Sunday, disagreements about the statue of General Douglas MacArthur, in the city of Incheon reached physical violence. More than twenty people were hurt when demonstrators tried to reach the statue, ostensibly to remove or damage it, but were halted by thousands of riot police.

MacArthur was the U.N. commander in chief who, at Incheon, commanded […]

Commencing today, I’ll begin publishing a second edit of my first significant series of Seoul street photographs, from the period of 2003 - 2004.

I recently reviewed this work and found that some of the images would be complimentary with the images already present in the photoblog.

There is another significant reason for me deciding […]