Photographing the young people of Seoul was my essay for the Magnum Korea book. The previous picture on this thread for the same. I hadn’t worked in Korea prior. Studied history and the demographics of course but the big jump for all who photograph cultures outside their own is to be sensitized to that culture. To feel it smell it breathe it. What makes them just like me in some ways and what makes them Korean. This is the real adventure. After this I was commissioned to do several Korea projects the most recent being Haenyeo: Angels of the Sea. My most recent book out in 2015. So I’m not usually a jump in jump out type. I stick with one topic for awhile. Often years. This picture was disconcerting when I took it and feels uneasy now. It’s odd. Yet it seemed very Korea to me at the time. #seoul #magnumkoreabook