It was summer and the busy pre-heatwave rush was coming to an end when I got the email from an editor I’d worked with several times in the past. He was working with Cathay Pacific’s Discovery Magazine now and asked if I wanted to put together a package for a story on North Korean Cuisine they’d be running in Cathay Dragon’s Silkroad in October. It’s always a pleasure to work with editors multiple times as you get to know how […]
Today’s story will be a little bit different. It has been five years in the making; a journey of laughter and tears that has spanned three adoptions and countless hours together getting to know each other. We’ve shared the ups and downs of the building of the Anderson family and I have been allowed into the most private times of their lives to make images for the family to remember these moments by. Throughout this time, we’ve formed a friendship […]
Zion and I met for a coffee one afternoon in June last year to discuss his plans for his proposal to Miya. He had everything sorted out except the exact location and wanted my advice on what might work best for the photos and timing. We spent an hour or so getting to know each other and discussing options before settling on a row of metasequoia trees at the base of the hill. Excited, we both left to plan our […]
Welcome back to the final piece of my 2019 Year in Review. This will be the busiest section of the year, so we’ll dive right in without hesitation. October – Event, Family, Adoption, Proposal, and Couple Photography I started off this quarter with a two-day, 28-hour blockchain conference for BitcoinSV and Coingeek. This was a beautifully crafted conference that gave plenty of options for how to photograph it. The lighting and screens were a joy to work with and offered […]
Welcome back to my annual Year in Review series. Today we’ll be taking a look through the months of July, August, and September. Typically, these are some of my busiest months of the year in Korea, but this year a few things conspired to make this a quarter dominated by personal work. The Korean courts were processing very few adoptions, we had summer holidays followed by an early Chuseok, and the weather was sweltering. All this together meant that things […]
Welcome to the second part in my series of Year in Review posts for this year. We left off at the end of March in my last post with a beautiful family session with the Bruno family and some images I brought back from my time in India. If you haven’t seen that post, please do head over and take a look before we dive into the second quarter of the year. April, May, and June of 2019 were filled […]
Welcome to the first part of my annual Year in Review series. 2019 has been a year filled to the brim with commissioned work, personal work, and plenty of travel. Reviewing the images I’ve made along the way has given me a chance to relive some of the moments of this year that has been so long and so short. As usual, I’ll break this post into a series of four parts so I can share more of the year […]
Lendyl got in touch the month before his visit to Korea saying that he was planning to propose to his girlfriend Samantha during their trip and wanted to make the event really special. As we discussed his ideas, the plan got larger and larger and became a beautiful proposal in a private Hanok in Seoul. I was there for the proposal photography, and my Wesley Chang was there for the video. You can enjoy both of those below. Preparations As […]
Every year, the Italian Chamber of Commerce in Korea runs an Italian Food Festival that kicks off with all the chefs gathering to present a regional dish from Italy. This time around we had 12 chefs and 12 dishes to photograph in the few minutes before the event kicked off. As always, it was a pleasure to work with some of Korea’s most talented chefs and help support the promotion of quality food here in Korea. The second half of […]
Korea’s mildly-spicy fermented pepper paste gochujang has enjoyed a rise in popularity in the past few years. So much so, in fact, that Smile Magazine ran an entire article on visiting the home of some of Korea’s best traditionally made gochujang, Sunchang. I had the pleasure of heading down to photograph the village and some of the ladies famous for Korea’s most flavourful gochujang. This was to be a feature in the magazine, so we’d need to collect a good […]