Waiting at the airport can be boring at time after the tenth time you walked around the departure area. Since I had around 4 hours to kill at Incheon Airport, I thought to myself, "what the heck, I'll just take photos of random stuff and see what I can do with it." I did end up with some interesting photos. It's a mash up of both colour and black and white photos, but then again, I did enjoy myself in the process.

Just FYI, all the photos were taken with the Nikon 50mm f/1.2

The weather hasn't been the best in Korea with all the dust, pollen and whatever is floating in the air making everything hazy. Then I had an idea when I was browsing through my photos; why not do double exposures? I did experiment with this idea briefly 2 years ago when I was at work and I was pretty happy with the results. Today I decided to try it again at work and I'm pretty happy with the results. I call this set "The Children of Uihang." Enjoy.

There are a lot of escalators in Hong Kong. Heck, it's one of the main modes of transportation in Central on Hong Kong Island to ferry people up and down the hill. This project, "Escherlators" was inspired by M.C. Escher Relativity, where the stairwells lead into difference dimensions, into an never ending loop. The escalators in Hong Kong are some what the same; take the wrong one and you end up on a floor that you didn't intend on going to and trying to find your way around can be confusing.

This project started from a simple idea of collecting photos of bus shelters. The reason they interest me is because back in Toronto, the bus shelters looked more or less the same since because they are gradually replaced with a new model every few years. However in Korea, there’s more of a “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” attitude which results in the wonderful diversity of different bus shelters from different eras. As the project continued, it eventually turned into the goal of visiting every city and county in Chungcheongnam-do, to document the different variety of bus shelters which represented each city and county. In order to complete this goal, I spent a lot of time on Daum Map (Korea’s version of Google Map) since I had to find out where the bus shelters were located and how I was going to reach them. One thing that made this project difficult is that I could only travel during the weekends since I had to work during the week. The time I had taking photos was also limited because not every city/county had direct buses going back to where I lived. This resulted in meticulous planning of which buses and trains I had to take and where I had to transfer in order to decrease traveling time. Through this project, I can officially say I have visited every city and county in Chungcheongnam-do. Although it took me almost six months to complete, it has motivated me to go out and visit places where I would have never had the chance to go to. At the end, it has made me realize there is more to bus shelters than a structure to keep people out the elements. They represent a community; of where people from and where their roots are.