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[HanCinema's Digest] Photography and Art

The Lonely Planet features a dark reimagining of Korea's future, a top South Korean painter is charged with fraud, see Matt Hulse's award-winning "Sniper" series on North Korea, and K-fashion arrives in the United America.

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"Watch this video reimagine South Korea as a dark, sci-fi world"

Technology is rapidly changing the way we see the future and our place in it. In Hollywood, recent films like "Blade Runner 2049" and the upcoming "Black Panther" both explore futuristic human habitats (to vastly different degrees), but what about South Korea? "Korean Mirrorworld" is an experimental piece by visual effects artist Rufus Blackwell that, "portrays Boryeong in South Korea as a dark and moody alternate dimension where the sky mimics the landscape and sea below". Do you know of other examples of K-futurism? Let us know in the comment section below...

...WATCH ON LONLEY PLANET

"Veteran South Korea crooner convicted of art fraud"

While South Korea's art scene is becoming an increasingly important part of the so-called 'Korean Wave', the country has also been dealing with a number of disturbing scandals. Painter Jo Young-nam, for example, was recently handed a 10-month sentence by the Seoul Central District Court for hiring "assistants" to help him produce art. Jo reportedly said that he "never thought hiring assistants was a problem or illegal".

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"Matt Hulse evades North Korea's photography regulations in his series Sniper"

Did you know that North Korea has one of the most photographed capitals in the world? This is according to Matt Hulse whose recently won the Gold Award at the Felix Schoeller Photo Awards in Germany with his provocative "Sniper" images. "Many of the images [...] were taken from the window of the Yanggakdo Hotel in the country's capital, Pyongyang, and the remaining stills were captured from rooftops across South-East Asia". Hulse, who has visited North Korea nine times in just a few years, is "well-versed in the peculiarities and restrictions of one of the world's most secretive states". Click on through to the British Journal of Photography to spy some of Hulse's award-winning work.

...READ ON THE BRITISH JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAPHY

"Korean fashion to gets its close-up at Asian Art Museum"

The Asian Art Museum's "Couture Korea" will be the first of its kind in the United States when it opens November 3rd. In this post, Tony Bravo previews the exhibition and speaks to the museum's curator about this landmark event. Interestingly, the event is broken up into three galleries that are divided both chronologically (starting with the Joseon era) as well as thematically so people "can make the connection from the past to the present in dress". Catch it if you can!

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