[HanCinema's Digest] Photography and Art

In Korea you can get a photorealistic figurine made of yourself, The Creators Projects features illustrator/Instagrammer Lee Kyutae, hit the streets of Busan to discover some the city's brilliant street art, and The Korea Times covers Kim Soo-ja's tactile exhibition at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul.

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"South Korea's 3D photo craze"

In South Korea you can get a photo-quality figurine made of yourself (or of your pet) for just a few hundred dollars. The company that offers the services takes a series of 3D images in their special booth and a few weeks later you get your own mini-you!

...WATCH ON REUTERS

"Drawn Memories of Cats and Korean Landscapes | Monday Insta Illustrator"

Lee Kyutae is a Korean Instagramer and illustrator who shares his work online with the world. "Many of his drawings and short animations feature his friends and daily activities, such as playing with his cat and visiting a James Turrell-style art installation". In this post you'll find a few of the illustrations he's already shared on Instagram, and it really is stunning stuff...

...READ ON THE CREATORS PROJECT

"THE IMPRESSIVE GRAFFITI CULTURE IN BUSAN"

Get a glimpse of the incredible street art around South Korea's coastal city of Busan. There's a strong graffiti culture in Korea's major cities, and here 10 Magazine has snapped up some prime examples of some of the best Busan has to offer to give you taste of the talent on public display: "While you'll be hard-pressed to walk a few blocks without seeing any of the aforementioned artistic works on display, locating various graffiti and street art may not be so easy".

...READ ON 10 MAGAZINE

"Rolling clay into balls for inner peace"

Kwom Mee-yoo, writing for The Korea Times, has put together a great feature about Kim Soo-ja, an artist who "gives back the primitive tactile sensation to visitors" through her works as she explores the relationship between the material and the immaterial: "The main piece of the exhibit is 'Archive of Mind', a site specific installation which invites visitors to make clay balls and place them on a large wooden table, accompanied with the matching sound performance 'Unfolding Sphere.'" Interesting...

...READ ON THE KOREA TIMES