When I first started this blog last summer I envisioned posting new photographs regularly. I thought it might challenge me to produce better photographs, while also giving me the chance to talk about certain images that I really like. Since I have yet to do this and am also busy with a writing project I shelved two [...]
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Photographing the Urban
Posted in Photography, South Korea, tagged Daejeon, Daejeon shopping, Eunangdong shopping, Korean shopping districts, Photography, South Korea, tteok bokki, urban photography on April 29, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The Demilitarized Zone – a Travel Review
Posted in Photography, South Korea, Travel Review, tagged commodity of war, Demilitarized Zone, DMZ, DMZ Tour, Freedom Village, Joint Security Area, JSA, Kijong-dong, Military Demarcation Line, North Korea, Panmunjom, Propaganda Village, South Korea, The Axe Murder Incident, Tunnel, United Nations, USO Korea, war tourism on February 8, 2009 | 7 Comments »
There is something ethically unsettling about buying into a half day tour of a military standoff. At what point in the progression of battle does one side decide that there is money to be made parading tourists along the line of contention? And at what point does that tour become the “must see” destination of [...]
Silence (Saturated and Served up Nightly)
Posted in Canada, Photography, South Korea, tagged burn site, ESL, forest fire, generator, Hagwon, Haveman Brothers, noise, Northern Ontario, planting camp, reforestation, silence, sound of silence, South Korea, spruce, teaching, Thunder Bay, tree planting, white pine on January 15, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Ever have those days when everyone about you screams forth your name and demands your undivided attention? Ever have those days when you feel like no one speaks your language? When the cacophony is so great you can’t hear yourself think?
There are a good many such days here in Korea.
Amidst all the noise (and [...]
In Defense of Lamp Posts (because they need defending)
Posted in Miscellaneous, Photography, tagged C.S. Lewis., Lamp Post, light pollution, Photography, The Lion the Witch and the Wordrobe on November 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
After having inhabited the Land of Narnia for about two years of my childhood, it seems I cannot pass a lamp post by without framing it in my camera lens. Street lights are one thing, ever-present in their monotony, like gray-clad sentinels positioned by regimen at precise intervals. There is an aesthetic in that, to [...]
Death by Photographs
Posted in Photography, tagged death, memory, Photography on September 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I heard recently that your body completely renews itself every seven years. Cellular bit by cellular bit, all physical matter is rejected and then simultaneously replenished; the body shedding itself clean and then growing itself anew. And, through it all, we persist. Our identities, our memories, our essential selves continue.
I was thinking of this while [...]
