Oct 3, 2026 | Photography, Writings
Stories of my photography students— The Korean community in Laos is small. Not a single soul calls themselves an artist here. Except for me. Then again, I hold a US passport, so calling myself Korean is a bit of a contradiction anyway. Less than one percent has...
Sep 11, 2026 | Photography, Writings
About Laos When I was living in LA, my oldest brother talked me into going to China. I gladly took him up on it and visited Shanghai, Beijing, and Shenyang. Except for Korea, it was my first trip outside the Western Hemisphere. On the final day of the trip, a...
Sep 7, 2026 | Photography, Writings
Stories from My College Days Making prints in the darkroom, I pulled photographs with the fierce belief that no one worked harder than I did. As a result, I swept unprecedented awards, drowned in scholarships, and broke out on my own. Back then, I didn’t even...
Sep 4, 2026 | Photography, Writings
Without any point… When the mind plays tricks on itself, things that once seemed monumental inevitably turn trivial. That’s just the nature of time. You run into a crisis. You haven’t got the faintest clue how to navigate it, trapped in the tunnel vision...
Aug 15, 2026 | Photography, Writings
Even if I’m called the Picasso of photography, what I’ve longed for all this time was to paint. I don’t know why I put it off for so long. I was like a clock with a dying battery, its second hand twitching repeatedly in place. I grew up looking at...
Aug 13, 2026 | Photography, Writings
Greed “Greed is good.” These are the words spoken by Gordon Gekko in the film Wall Street. The real-life figure who said them ended up in prison. Greed is something extraordinarily difficult to control. It is listed among the seven deadly sins...