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Kimberly quietly gathers her strength at the perfect point of convergence between old and new Seoul, in a place where the symbolic importance of grossly irrelevant Tradition and the vulgar exigencies of modern life come colliding together.
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Kimberly Maria Buxton turns modernity and tradition topsy-turvy as this publicity photo for her graduation performance as the first non-"pure" Korean to receive an MFA in traditional Korean dance. As several cliched dualities collide, e.g. East meeting We
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Grace Kim in Post December by Ross James for Yahae Magazine. Where street and fashion meet -- in an Itaewon back alley. That's how you do it!!!
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Grace Kim in Post December by Ross James for Yahae Magazine.
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Dongdaemun and the fishnet Paepi.
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In the heart of Dongdaemun, Korea's powerhouse textiles and fast fashion industries, including the Private Branded Hives that power all the street fashion in Asia you know, including all the weirdness of Japan in the Nineties (Thanks, Dongdaemun!) and the
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Disney Paepi redo, sans frame.
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The sleeves these days. Be there's that esc clutch again. This girl from Hong Kong is also wearing a dim e cres headband.
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The this girl from Hong Kong is sporting the dim e cres and esc brands. Well.
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Trend. Setter. This interesting young lady made this outfit. Not like from hand, but made to order, as in specifying that "trend" would be written on the right sleeve, "setter" on the left, and it is sassy in her kinda, some kinda way. Note that I bumped
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What that back alley really looks like. From today's flash photo and lighting workshop.
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Even their friend was dressed to impressed, whom I impressed into service as a lighting assistant. Needs that flash of pure white light flash sunshine to cut through the yellow-orange murkiness of Seoul's sodium-vapor street lamps. Strobe on a remote can'
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Doing my flash surprise Bruce Gilden in New York thing at Seoul Fashion Week. Everyone is here to shoot it be shit anyway, so blazing away at folks with the flash is a nice lead in to get permission and really start shooting. It's a nice icebreaker. I l
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Street Fashion Portrait, Gyeongnidan, Seoul.
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More modern hanbok girls, this time in the very newly trendy neighborhood of Gyeongnidan. This is definitely a thing. I think that everyone can agree --more modern hanbok!
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We put on an event shooting street fashion in front of UNESCO Korean Cultural Heritage site Namhansanseong fortress. I pulled three models found at previous Seoul Fashion Weeks to help bring new and old school together.
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Hyeji and Yoanna together for the symmetry shot. She wrote the Chinese characters on her top herself. And I got Air Jordans and Adidas in the same shot together. Happy about that.
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Korea done changed. A lot. Soyeon is a senior in high school but rocking the intense tats. The conservative city people were flabbergasted. Tats in Korea were until recently cause to make people believe you were a Yakuza-level gangster. Not no more. It's
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"She wore a raspberry beret..."
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Yoanna was hitting them poses like a boss. Unfortusntrly, the structure gets lost in this picture, at wide angle. It's decent shoe commercial, but not something showing off the UNESCO site.
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So I grabbed these two girls and asked them to do the hanbok pose for me, since they had come out FOR pics, anyway.
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The Korean traditional Hanbok has started to show up at the SFW festivities as there is a huge element of cosplay here. Indeed, the hanbok has become not much more than a costume in a new korea filled with Confucian consumers and a notoriously nouveau ric
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The most amazing street location in Seoul. You shoot for ten seconds, the background completely changes maybe twice. And if you wanna get cotton candy crazy instagram effects to fully convey a Hyperreal shooting situation that really conveys the surrealit
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Started our little Korean Street Fashion Lookbook today away from the main SFW street fashion photo zoo. You can't shoot anything there, anyway. Same boring background, amateur photographers stumbling over one another's shots, bogart one and confusing you
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