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iPhone X It’s been a while! At the end of 2023 I was in a bad car accident. It was about as fun as it sounds. Spending months in the hospital I had lots of time to think. Think about where I’d been and where I should be going. One thing I was certain about, I need to focus more on photography going forward. I love teaching. My day job is teaching. I love photography, too. That’s why I love…

Seoul, 2023. In 2022, I was given a commission to work on a street photography project. I’d not spent time in the streets of Seoul for years. Corona, pregnancy, baby, life, work. Doesn’t make it easy. Seoul, 2023. I’m a depressed photography. I always thought my turmoil fueled my creativity. The happier I got, the harder it was to walk. The harder it was to move. The harder to pick up a…

From Busan to Shimonoseki, 2023 It’s been a while. I’ve an excuse. Like, a legitimate excuse. I guess I ran out of space on my WordPress and there’s no easy upgrade path from Korea. 3GB used to seem like a lot. I remember the days that a 1GB hard drive was the dream. A lot has changed. My daughter was born in 2021, May. I last posted in June, 2021. No coincidence there. Things get put on the…

Life Changes and Street Photography 101

There have been a few changes in my life in the last couple of months. Most notably, as you can see from above, we’ve added a member to our family. It’s been one of those times in life where I’ve mostly just sat back and taken it all in. I’ve not taken a whole lot of photos. I’ve not talked much (aside from on my outlet of a Youtube Channel I use to “escape” from real life). Life can’t stop…

Workshop, Life, and New Beginnings

Fujifilm X100V. Iksan, South Korea It’s been a while! solidly into 2021 now and things are looking, well, up? I guess? Me? Let’s start with the workshop! The question I get most often about my photography is how do I edit digital photos. People tend to read old blog posts and struggle with the fact that I processed differently then or used different programs or presets. Things change, as do…

Two Cute Cats. Well, it’s almost Christmas. 2020 has been one helluva year. Not much has been constant for me in 2020 aside from the struggle that is far from mine alone. I feel like I’ve been through it all this year. Started a business destined to fail, lost one of the most important people in my life, made a baby that thankfully won’t call 2020 their birth year. It’s a lot for a year. One…

Jeju Island, South Korea. September 2020.

Seasons change. Summer comes and goes. Winter lingers. Fall and spring fleeting. Cliched thoughts.

Food for thought.

Jeju Island, South Korea. September 2020.

September. On a rocky beach in Jeju Island my wife sat and felt the breeze. Thoughts of beginnings and of change. A spring baby. A boy or a girl?

A heartbeat? Should we have stayed home?

What’s in my “Bag?” (2020)

Wandrd Prvke. Iksan, South Korea.

“What’s in your bag?”

It’s been a while since someone asked me this. Maybe I’m not as popular as I used to be, ha. Maybe travel is non-existent so no one cares. Probably a bit of both.

Wandrd Prvke. Iksan, South Korea.

Let me start with a bit of a confession. I am a bit of a bag whore. I mean, I love bags. I like bags more than cameras.

True…

Iksan, South Korea. August 2020.

Thirty-four of forty days it rained. And not just intermittently. Taking my wife to a test last Saturday water was halfway up the tires of my car and people were treating it as if it were any other day.

Iksan, South Korea. August 2020.

As if 2020 hadn’t been enough. Sandbags in front of department stores.

Iksan, South Korea. August 2020.

Rain…

Iksan, South Korea. 2017.

First of all, I want to start by thanking those who bought my new zine, Tokyo: 1 Day, 2 Nights. I’m really thankful and super happy to hear how much everyone enjoys it with its new, larger format. It was a difficult decision to make it bigger, because of course that means it also had to be more expensive. Every photo in the zine is almost an A4 sized print.

Iksan,…

Nomadic Brewery. Jeonju, South Korea. August, 2020.

Nomadic Brewery in Jeonju is owned by my friend, John. I don’t know much about brewing beer. I like beer. Making it, not so much.

Interesting? Not so sure.

Nomadic Brewery. Jeonju, South Korea. August, 2020.

I like drinking beer. I like drinking John’s beer. I’m drinking one while writing this.

He asked me to come take photos…

Here We Go Again

Iksan, South Korea. Tmax 400 at 1600.

This just about sums up 2020. It’s been a year to remember. Or forget, depending on your prerogative. For me, 2020 has been a bit of both for me. Certainly some negatives.

Not everything has been f$%ked, though.

Iksan, South Korea. Tmax 400 at 1600.

Photographically, 2019 was probably my worst year in, well, years. I took hardly any photos and…

New Zine: Tokyo: 1 Night, 2 Days.

Cover

Tokyo: 1 Night, 2 Days is my third zine. I don’t really consider zines to be photobooks and they certainly aren’t magazines. Somewhere in between, I guess.

The story of this zine goes very much with its title. When I came to Korea from Canada in 2007 I’d often go to Tokyo for one night, two day trips during my free weekends. Technically speaking they were more like three night, two…

iPhone 11 Pro

It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these. You’d think that with all this virus stuff I would have more time but somehow it turned into the opposite. Korea didn’t really slow down much, yet we struggled in similar ways to the rest of the world. It has been a hard couple of months.

iPhone 11 Pro

I’ve realized a lot of things during this time. A lot about life. A lot…

Introducing Jtinseoul: Learn From Me, From Anywhere.

Me, 2/27/2020.

Introduction

This week has been one of the weirder ones in recent memory. It started out with a text message from one boss saying that we were going to take a week off because of the concerns related to the Corona virus. About 15 minutes later, I received another message from the education department saying schools in general were urged not to have classes this week.

A…

Seoul Workshop with Sean Lotman: Your Streets, Your Voice, Your Story Series

C. Sean Lotman

Your Streets, Your Voice, Your Story

Seoul 2/29-3/1

As most of you’ll know, I am a member of the group, andthelastwaves. Well, today on the blog I’m very happy to announce a workshop I’ll be doing with fellow member and great friend, Sean Lotman. Info below!

C. Josh White

Why do we go into the streets to photograph architecture, people, situations, colors, light?…