Category Archives: Portraits
Siyeon Park
Siyeon Park’s series reminds one of August Sander’s portraits of the People of the 20th Century, a typological look at school-going girls in Korea. The girls bear an eerie resemblance to each other, blank stares fixated on their faces. Su-yeon Choi: Who cries all the time over everything Ji-in Kim: Who hates to wear school [...]
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Flanegan Bainon
Anima, according to Jungian psychology, refers to the inner self that is in touch with the unconscious. Flanegan Bainon from Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia had been working earnestly on his portraiture series, Anima, since last year. TOP TO BOTTOM, from (“Anima“) © Flanegan Bainon, 2008-2009 Somehow, I particularly like the subjects’ awkwardness. It’s a work [...]
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Jinnine Pak
Based in Brooklyn, young photographer Jinnine Pak’s series on women has got some interesting images [NSFW]. She focused her energies on creating unapologetic sentimental feminine images of women. In a world filled with Photoshopped women and plastic surgery, this real look is very much welcomed. TOP TO BOTTOM, from (“Women“) © Jinnine Pak Jinnine approached [...]
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Future
This is a series of portraitures that seeks to explore the individual’s reaction to life’s many uncertainties. Faced with an infinite number of choices daily, how does one progress from the Present to the Future? How does one make sense of an abstract concept amidst the surrounding chaos? Into The Unknown The Unbridled Freedom After [...]
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Muge
Muge from Chengdu, China has some amazing portraits of strangers taken in the streets in his series, Silent. Set against the background of rapidly growing China, most of the images possess a melancholic feel; individuals lost in their seas of thoughts, trying to understand an absurd world. While the subjects’ contemplation seem to reach some [...]
Also posted in China 9 Comments
Ye Rin Mok
I first saw Ye Rink Mok’s work in Hard Candy years ago. I was wondering at the point of time how a pedophiliac photographer could produce such breathtaking images. But of course, that was just a movie plot and the person behind the images was someone else (and female too). TOP TO BOTTOM © Ye [...]
Also posted in Korea 5 Comments
Ohm Phanphiroj
TOP TO BOTTOM, © Ohm Phanphiroj Ohm Phanphiroj is a well-regarded art and fashion photographer from Thailand. His portraits are highly charged with intimacy and tension. I visited Whitespace Gallery where his Identity Crisis: Transsexual Series was on show. It featured triptychs of transsexuals and a short note on when they underwent their transformation. I [...]
Also posted in Thailand 3 Comments
Hei Ming
I find Hei Ming’s portraits striking. top to bottom, Common People © Hei Ming top to bottom, Monks © Hei Ming However, I think the pictures of the monks are less interesting than the common folk. The people just appear to be more real and genuine. Portraits of the common folks can be found here [...]
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Bharat Sikka