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Girl Talk. Not a guy in the place, except for the servers. Just another part of the ladification (gendered gentrification) that has swept through the neighborhood.
Joseon Swagger.
This couple does not go quietly...
Seoul bus stop PDA II.
This is SHINCHON!!! Goal: Take the best catching couples' attire photo EVAH in Korea. Real street. Real street fashion.
Stealing kisses before the movie.
5 minutes in Yongsan V: The Kiss.
Chuncheon nights.
A real kiss should make you dizzy and the world melt away.
The biggest clutch-style purse I've seen on a woman in Korea in a while. And I saw what was in it when she ordered popcorn. Basically, her phone and her wallet. I don't get it.
New-school Lunar New Year tradition for the kids.
Picture perfect, radiant, 선명한 컬러. More like highly paid makeup artist, talented Photoshop technician make
In the realm of the consumptive senses.
This buttony skirt is errywhere. I like it. I've been chasing this skirt all summer. Some might call it a perv shot, but I do like the skirt. And it's the best way I can think of to capture this piece of übertrendy clothing. She was right there as I got
Conspicuous, concurrent consumption.
The kingdom of Jesus, as promised by the exhorters always present at the mouth of the Seoul's most densely packed and bustling watering hole of consumptive pleasures in Myeongdong, a place symbolizing what the Pope invoked as Korea's growing flirtation wi
Hongdae CGV is coming.
No more roasted squid and beer at the Korean cineplex. American fare and popcorn machines in effect, although a set of popcorn and two drinks costs about $6 here, you can actually eat something from the concession stand without a credit report and a down
Consuming ALL around her.
Sometimes, no matter how classy, ya just gotta hock one out.
Highly gendered consumption has created market forces that turnedg my beloved Hungry Dog diner man cave into a juice bar filled exclusively with girly girls. Because Korean girly girls are not really hungry dogs.
Spring nights in Gyeongnidan offer Consumption and Romanticism.
Super selfie! Korea's most highly developed fine art!!!!!
The art of stealth with a 20mm on a full-frame body requires 1) knowledge of the Force and 2) 'nads of steel. Shit is easy if you're across the street with a Hubble Telescope on your camera. At 20mm, you can smell the smoke.
The most oppressively pressing question people ask one another and themselves. Especially now that Itaewon has become a girls/couples area.
Bonny's Sunday Afternoon madness!
Sometimes, no matter how classy, a girl's just gotta hock one out.
Out for a walk in my hood, met other walkers. The Haebangchon is fast becoming naturally Korean cool. Happy day, happy family! Spring is here, in full effect!
Notions of Confucian propriety for women have either disappeared or very much faded. Well, hey, this IS Hongdae.
The very picture of the gendered consumption of the Other in the foreigner ghetto in Seoul. The #2 commuter bus is in the background, too.
Korean Samdidas Choos. THE choice of the streets.
The Korean Office: 8:36 AM. On the way in.
'Cuz that's what friends are for...
My main informant for my story on the BS 2004 Special Anti-prostitution Law I did for the Korea Herald. still a favorite pic. my portrait of her, as strong as possible without a face. Taken on Hooker Hill, which I've geo-tagged as the new ITW hotel there.
Lady of the evening in the b-team behind the red light district Right by Times Square mall. She behind the behind the scenes.
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The real Itaewon still lives, despite
Prostitute seen from my bus ride home. I always pass through this mini-red light district on the way home from the office, and its a dice roll as to whether traffic will have the bus rolling through slowly or whizzing through so I cant shoot. It always am
Top of Hooker Hill, circa 2004.
Night Workers in Ahyeon-dong. Taken from the bus. Looking for the iconic shot of this area taken while just passing by. #seoul #korea #korean #girl #prostitution #ahyeon
Walking by with my camera out in Itaewon, door opened and suddenly it was the Nineties Itaewon again. Girls wanting me to buy them drinks in the bar. I said I didn't have any cash. She parried by saying I should use my card. At $15 a drink, of course. But
Juicy bar door, Itaewon.
Rain in Yeongdeungpo. Some people aren't monsoon-ready.
Yes, rain, sleet, or snow. Ramen for lunch in slippers. This is Korea.
Sudden sonagi. The Korean word for sudden, often violently strong, rain shower is
Bumped into one of my SFW fashion buddies doing a very pretty and fashionable zombie or something.
Found some respectable costumes out in Hongdae Park, which has become Korean Halloween central, besides Itaewon, which is the literal Halloween haunt for foreigner types. Found a Bride of Something, a Bloody Sexy Cop something, and their friend, obviously
Ever-popular street fashionista Nanjung looks great and always knows how to strike a pose, even when running to the subway to get the hell OUTTA dodge. She struck a few poses like BOOM BOOM BOOM and was gone. A true pro.
The Day After in Insadong. Photo class.
This continues to be my favorite pictorial, sartorial subject from recent Seoul Fashion Weeks. Because I'm going to say it. Most of street fashion here in Korea is bullshit and artifice. She ain't neither of those. She is smoking like she got em!!!
The utmost respect for a true diehard fashionista. Broken leg in a cast from a car accident or no, she was COMING to Fashion Week, DAMMIT. One fashion shoe with frilly sock and a cast and shit, for real. Look of the day, no joke! I did make her walk a bit
Granddapper! Did he know it's fashion week or is he always this awesome? I wonder.
Lot going on here. Socks, demurified Daisy Dukes, cutesy normcore, etc.
This Nike Normcore thing is outta control.
Umma, hanbok-style!!!!