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Hyanggyo
In Korea, there is a city, called Changwon. The city is not as popular as Seoul or other cities, so I always need to tag ‘Busan’ to explain where the city is located. Someone, who is familiar with Gyeongsannam-do province, would take thirty minutes to drive from Busan to Changwon. If this is a first journey, it might take about an hour to get there. To fully grasp the characteristics of this city, I recommend going to the rooftop of the highest building in the city. Once you look at the aerial view, the artificially planned city will welcome your visit, as if the city is one of many products that have been manufactured by a factory. Above the lined twin looking factories sitting next to each other across, some several undesigned neighborhoods are ashamed with their bare bodies. I spent my childhood in an unplanned neighborhood, Sodap-dong, in a planned city, Changwon.
By Yejin Ha5 years ago in Photography
Concussion by Camera
30 minutes after this photo was taken I hit my head hard enough on an overhanging rock to knock my AirPods clean out of my ears. Yeah. I was bleeding. I hurt myself and also managed to scare the shit out of myself. It was one of those pains that you didn’t expect. The pain knocked the wind out of my chest and I felt the cry that only terrified children release building in my lungs. Woah girl! I thought to myself. Relax you’re ok don’t cry you’re just in pain calm down! We are still in public. I mean I really did hurt my own feelings that day. I had a bump for a week. I had most of the symptoms of a concussion. It didn’t stop me from taking more photos though. In fact, I probably took more after, as protest against nature. How dare it try to send me home early.
By Hannah Farrow5 years ago in Photography
What once was..
I’m a Native Washingtonian and time and time again I feel like I’m always scavenging for things that make me feel like I’m at home amidst that drastically changing. Not saying at all that change isn’t necessary but what about the part of change that removes the very flavor, culture, and love because it isn’t suitable for an image that’s being portrayed. Neighborhoods for low income families get hit harder with property taxes every time someone decides to remodel. This store has been a part of my life, my entire 26 years. I grew up in a part of DC considered uptown, that stops when you hit the Takoma metro and on the other side you’ll hit Shaw Howard metro stop in my opinion. With a sprinkle of apartments that we’re still the majority in, heading towards downtown. I grew up in a few neighborhoods. (One included three different streets.) All that taught me something different. I went to all uptown schools and looking back I wouldn’t change a thing just maybe caring to acknowledge focusing wasn’t my strongest pursuit. I was very well looked after, protected, and loved by those sent here to look after me, my guardian angels physically here and not physically seen but felt. I was always creative, always being a part of my community being both of African descent and lgbtq+ My neighborhoods always felt so good like home and it left me feeling rather complete even with the ups and downs. Everyone looked after one another. Memories that’ll last as long as the sun continues to rotate and experiences that made you stronger in every sense of the word. So why is the goal to want what’s already been counted for? Why is it that we already have so little and that’s wanted also? Growing up I never really understood why my friends had to move.. it was explained in a coat of sugar instead of with a grain of salt. Most families sold their houses or were tenants renting and landlords found higher rent payers since they were only attracted to the dollar rather than caring about where this person and their children end up. I’ve experienced that once and I was much older than my brother so I was alright while I had to comfort him when he mentioned wanting to go home and my mother having to tell him this is our new home. It tore me apart to realize the harsh reality of people having it much worse than that. When I speak of home.. I’m talking about first steps, first words, first falls. All of the first things. First heartbreaks, first fights, and first inspirations. I found inspiration in pain because just like love, pain can also be unconditional or conditional. I’ve always had a way with my words and an awareness of how I’ve done so. People ask me how I’d describe my city and I can give them everything if they’re willing to hear. If not I’ll always say it’s nothing but authentic love here. The crack cocaine epidemic in the 80’s really ruined good people, good homes, and still continues to do so. My city is bleeding and it’s heartbreaking and numbing all at once but still love. I’ve gotten the most love from a stranger battling themselves. They want photos or conversation, they want to be seen and heard and sometimes it’s relieving. I have no judgement in my heart. At the end of the day we have lots in common. From our melanated struggles and losing our home we’re just copping differently. In spring/summer of 2016 I got two cameras. The reasoning was my city is changing. I wanted to capture as much as I can so when it’s all changed around and barely noticeable I have photographic proof that we were here. That Chocolate City is ours forever. We are the literal heart beat of the city that can never be watered down no matter what. When most people think of my city it’s about the monuments and other attractions. Those are very minuscule parts to what makes the city, the city. It's a community/family, our own genre of music called Gogo, it’s late spring to early fall on Sunday’s at drum circle from noon until you get tired, it’s having to work twice as hard because there’s premeditated judgment, and more. The city has an ugly side too for sure but none that we’ve created for ourselves. We built this because our ancestors cried for this. Let another tell it. There’s beauty in struggle and strength in numbers, in unity. My city is worth it.
By Amber Stone Logan5 years ago in Photography
SUBURBAN SUMMER
foreword after my summer plans fell through last minute, i found myself more sad about it than i really let myself feel. i spent the first few weeks at home in coppell allowing myself to believe that i was missing out on something bigger, something better elsewhere. as each day passed, i grew angry with myself for letting this all happen in the first place. thinking about all of the things i could have done differently, about all of the places i could be, and all of the things i could be doing. one day i came across an interview in rookie mag between lauren tepfer and mariah mcmanus (riah) that helped shift my thoughts.
By lainey berlin5 years ago in Photography
5 Unusual Habits of Successful Photographers. Top Story - January 2021.
The best photographers have a process. A workflow. They’ve developed habits that enable them to produce consistently high-quality pictures, almost every time. Some of those habits may seem a bit unusual to the rest of us.
By Gary McBrine5 years ago in Photography
Where the Mountains Become Home
Nestled between Utah Lake and the Wasatch Front mountain range of Northern Utah is the city of Provo. As a self-proclaimed Idaho "native," I'm somewhat reluctant to admit that I was actually born in Provo. I was too young to remember living here, but since moving back for school, the mountains have become a symbol of home for me again.
By Oliver Dahl5 years ago in Photography
Gary, IN USA
I live in the shitty part of Chicagoland - where regular people lock their car doors when they drive through. You know the places - where people of color live on streets named after Ceasar Chavez or Martin Luther King. We don't even have those roads here but people still get scared. I'm not saying that racism doesn't exist here because we're all the same - it sure as fuck does - but here, in Gary, IN, USA, it's like Detroit. You don't want to be here if you got a choice.
By Julian Grant5 years ago in Photography
5 Twitter Photographers You'll Want To Electrify Your Aesthetic
I see there was some connection with my Twitter artists article (see here), so I decided that since I have so many like-minded devourers of Art . . . I would continue the trend by introducing you to some amazing contributors to Photo Twitter! These photographers can do it all: twist your perception, edge the darkest line of fantasy, swim along the brightest stream of light, and bend reality. All that, just in one photo? It's more likely than you think.
By Delise Fantome5 years ago in Photography
Everyday Atlanta
As a native of Atlanta,GA, I have spent the last 3 years using my photojournalism practice to highlight and celebrate the narratives of the everyday working class Black American in my hometown. The vainness of society has made us to believe that material assets, social status, and professions are the determinants of value. My work combats this by celebrating the everyday man on woman on their journey through the American system. This work is a celebration of the beautiful souls I’ve come across in my neighborhood who add value to this world simply by existing. The working class Black American is the fabric to the culture of Atlanta. These photographs serve as the liaison to showcase the natural elegance, grace, and cool that we naturally exude. And a love letter to my neighborhood.
By Rita Harper5 years ago in Photography
