Jeonju’s name roughly translating to “the perfect region”, it is a tourist city that takes pride in the tradition and nature. It is surrounded by beautiful mountains and parks giving it a more rural feel than either Busan or Seoul, and the tourist part was peppered with historical buildings and temples.

01/06/2021 01/06/2021

Korean Retrospective: Busan

ICCV 2021 seems like a million years ago.
Seeing people with masks in my photos doesn’t seem strange at all, and keeping one’s distance from others doesn’t seem as cold now as it did then. In a way, some aspects of Korean culture (such as food, snacks, and music) seem more natural now when I have plethora of Korean stores and amazing restaurants at my doorstep. Originally, I was intending to post a series of photographs as a journal of sorts, like I did for my “Mexico journals” but I somehow never got around to it. This feels as good of a time as any to continue posting the photographs from that trip, so here we go. First in line: Busan.

25/04/2021 25/04/2021

COVID Journal: Rebuilding London

When the lockdown started, I used my spare time to document the changes I saw in my environment, and in the city of London. On this particular Wednesday, I decided to shoot what seemed to be the only people I saw around: builders and property maintainers.

05/02/2021 05/02/2021

Mexico journal: unpublished work

Throughout my journey I’ve seen and done many things - this lead to a bunch of images. A lot of these images don’t really fall into any particular category, so here is a dump, nicely captioned as there is no real cohesive story tying them together. Images are grouped in “galleries”, loosely related by themes.

18/01/2021 18/01/2021

Mexico journal: coconuts

When I was set on a path to Mexico, I expected many many things.
What I haven’t expected is that I’d fall in love and miss coconuts so much.

08/01/2021 08/01/2021

Mexico journal: Cancun

There is not much to say about Cancun; it is a prime tourist destination with the third busiest airport in the world during the pandemic. It also didn’t exist 50 years ago.

31/12/2020 31/12/2020

2020 in Photos

This was a yeas where I took my photography on another level.
I noticed that I’ve improved noticeably in the quality and consistency of the images I’ve produced. I still feel like most of what I do is shit and that I do NOT spend nearly enough time shooting, but when all is said and done, I’m happy with what this year brought to me photographically speaking. This is a brief preview of the images I’ve produced over the year.

14/12/2020 14/12/2020

Mexico journal: Tulum

There are a few places in 2020 that do not give a fuck about a certain pandemic and Tulum is definitely one of them. Here is a brief journal from my day spent there with Tamy, Ana, and Hugo.

31/10/2020 31/10/2020

Mexico journal: markets

Markets are the reflection of a culture or something like that.

Which is why they are the best and the worst thing to visit when visiting a new place - they are the best place to learn about it, but also the easiest way to get scammed. Mercado 23 and 28 in Cancun are the polar opposites of each other - Mercado 23 is the market for the locals and Mercado 28 is for sort-of tourists.

02/10/2020 02/10/2020

Mexico journal: on culture (Xcaret part 2)

Yucatan is in itself is a fascinating place to have a discussion regarding culture. Remains of some of the most advanced civilisations can be found there […] Despite the rich history, the towns I spent time in didn’t exist 50 years ago. This is to say that Yucatan is not a place where what I know and think of the Mexican culture actually started. It is one large tourist scam with ancient ruins peppered around for good measure.