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[HanCinema's Digest] Photography and Art

Kevin Bubriski looks back at images of a tense DMZ meeting from 1979 in the New York Review of Books, a Korean grandpa becomes an Instagram sensation as his finds a creative way to keep in touch with his grandchildren, Me Kyeoung has created a charming series of paintings of Korean convenient stores, and Bloomberg puts women photographers from around the world in the spotlight.

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"Watching & Waiting: Korea's Border in 1979"

"Seeing the images for the first time", writes Kevin Bubriski about the photographs he took at the DMZ back in 1979 following the assassination of President Park Chung-hee, "I'm struck by the choreography of the soldiers on either side of the border; they seemed to be involved in an intricate dance of watching and being watched". Although Bubriski took the images himself, he never actually laid eyes on them before. Looking at them today, Bubriski reflects that "there was a paradoxical intimacy to the encounter despite the great unknowing" and asks whether anything has actually changed...

...READ ON THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS

"Korean grandpa artist taking over Instagram"

Lee Chan-jae has over 300,000 followers on Instagram. The 75-year old has never learned to draw and he has no experience with social media, but his drawings of his grandchildren have become somewhat of a sensation. After his grandchildren left to complete their schooling back home (they were living in Brazil at the time), Lee started drawing and posting pictures of them in order to stay connected. "It occurred to me that I should also start drawing pictures that could encourage such people", said Lee. "I never anticipated I would have so many followers. Now I'm under even more pressure to draw good pictures".

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"Me Kyeoung Lee's charming paintings of the small convenience stores of South Korea"

Me Kyeoung Lee has spent two decades observing and capturing many of Korea's corner shops and has created a series of charming paintings of them across all of Korea's distinct seasons. Her pictures are incredibly detailed, warm, and her experiences growing up around them really comes through in her textured and nostalgic creations. "There were not many things to see and play like these days, but there was a time when I was happy to have a coin in my hands and run to a shop and hang out with friends gathered in front of it". Creative Boom has nine of Me's paintings to enjoy...

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"Striking Photography From Women Around the Globe"

A recent Bloomberg feature puts a number of female photographers from around the world in the spotlight-including South Korea's own Jean Chung, a Seoul-based photographer. Chung made a name for herself through her work in Afghanistan and the Democratic Republic of Congo, and to date, she's published three photo essays in Korea. Here you'll find two of Chung's photographs, as well as a number of images from other female photographers around the world.

...READ ON BLOOMBERG

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