Tuesday 29 October 2013

You also be able to get your luck and be artist of yourself.





Polaroid photos express his/her luck itself.


When you take pictures by using Polaroid camera,
you have to consider a lot of things, such as, quality and types of camera and films, weather, degrees of humidity, degrees of temperature, quantity of light, shadows, etc.

When you develop films/negatives, you also have to think about time of development, temperature, quantity or situation of chemistry, whether a roller move evenly on films/negatives, and so on.

In the process, there are more things people are not able to control than you can count.

Photographer of Polaroid arts catch a bit of luck many times and gather them into a film/negative. And he/she also makes a good terms with luck so that uses the power of it.

"Perfect" is not always " the Best".

Plesase take a look at Polaroid arts at your nearest gallery.


By. Yu Inaba




Tuesday 22 October 2013

The Unusual Suspects

Introducing the current Photography and Blogging students. They have been contributing members for over a month now and together they have been making beautiful imagery, bringing up some insightful concepts as well as maintaing the blog and supporting each other as a team.
Contributing members
{Past and present}
 Andrey Moreira
Boyoung Kim
Dong Hyo Kim (John PB)
Stella Lin
Min Jung Kim (Summer)
Seonghoon Heon (Eddie ‘The Editor’)
Chein Yen Hung
Ki Seok Keum (David)
Sang Woo Kim (Alex)
Carina Latz
Luis Alberto Luckow
Mark Roloff
A special thanks to Joao Neto (Blog Master) for all his help with setting up this course, and most importantly this blog!

Friday 11 October 2013

Milton (photo by Andrey Moreira)
Music. This is the picture of a masterpiece of Brazilian music, perhaps of global music. A
great album that translates the musicality of a people, their influences and their culture.
For me, listening to music is the best way to travel without actually going anywhere.Nothing is better to bring me back home than the music of the greatest artists of my lovely
Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Milton Nascimento is a musical phenomenon on so many levels that is hard to explain.
His voice gives you chills; his music enters through veins, flows up trough your body and
goes to the brain. It warms your heart and heals your pain. Makes me remember my
people, my family, my friends and the good moments of life. This is my transport home.

Father's handcart



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Jagalchi market in busan, korea 2012, 09
photo by John Kim


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Jagalchi market in busan, korea 2012, 09
photo by John Kim


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Jagalchi market in busan, korea 2012, 09
photo by John Kim


I made this photograph a year ago, in Jagalchi market, Busan, Korea. It was 5am, the day before thanksgiving. I went to the market alone to take pictures. I wanted to take pictures of the preparing of a daily task.  As an industry, labor is hard work. It is so laborious but it can be so beautiful.
In Korea thanksgiving is a day of meeting all the family. They gather at the parent's home. Each talk, "how are you”, "how was.....?", "when will you marry?", "did you get a good job? Everyone is so happy and comfortable, romantic. We give thanks for harvesting, thanks for god, thanks for parents. For this reason I decided to take this picture. The man, carrying something somewhere in the early morning. His son might be asleep. Might... but he couldn’t sleep. He woke up early and went to his work ground. He had to earn money by carring things.
At that time I didn't know him but I felt his emotion. Because I have a father. Also my father might feel such emotion. I could identify. Many media had been describing only the mother's life, not the father’s life. So I tried to take this picture to represent the fathers struggle. We can see a father in this picture. The man might be someone's father. Carrying something that is so heavy on his shoulder, his back becomes painful but he has to overcome it, and has to go back to his family. My father, to me represents home. He creates our home like all the other hardworking man.

Written by John Kim

Friday 4 October 2013

What IS fashion?: Just be yourself, and feel good!

 I just want fashion ! Nobody can stop me!
               Photo and writing by Stella Lin




 








Its time to warm our bodies up: Layers and books are my fall equipment.
 Photo and writing by Stella Lin
    
"Are you looking at me? I'm a queen in the rain!"
 Photo and writing by Stella Lin

Thursday 3 October 2013

IH Fall Fashion.

 

Meet Bobby Duzgun!~.
He is fall fashion. He's wearing a denim shirt with a mexican pattern and
black jean pants. His accessory is a big black umbrella.
 he looks like he's kidding!.  
-photo by Boyoung Kim, writing by David-

Meet Mexican gal, IH student; Angelica Soria.
She's very fashionable and she's wearing a windbreaker jacket
Also she's wearing floral leggings and ugg shoes.
She's a nice girl. 
-photo and writing by Boyoung Kim


The 'Street Fashion' Women





This woman was waiting for the bus at the bus stop. It was raining very heavy so she sat on the bench. She was wearing a bright green raincoat and zebra-stripe leggings. To accessorize she wore black shoes and a brown bag. I thought that she looked nice and fashionable .She had a warm smile and I loved it.
 Photo and Writing by Hung-Yen Chien









When Stella and I walked on the street, we met a special woman. She was taking photos on the street too. She was wearing a black jacket and a colourful scarf. She had cool style pants and brown shoes. She brought her camera which made me think that she might be a traveller or a photographer. She told us that she came from Germany and she was traveling through a lot of countries. She said that she would go to Victoria for two days.  She had a nice smile. We loved her and we thought she looked fashionable
Photo by Stella Lin and Hung-Yen Chien and Writing by Hung-Yen Chien



'Rain-couver' ? It doesn't matter to fashionable people!

Such heavy rain these days! Are the fashionable alright? Surprisingly, rain can't stop them!!We met many awesome people on the road.- (Granville st and Main st.)
They didn't care about the weather conditions.
All photographs were taken by Summer Kim. All texts were written by Alex Kim

"Teal jacket guy."
He was wearing a teal jacket, sky blue shirt, and an avant garde sweater. On the bottom, he was wearing plain black skinny pants to go with black ankle boots.

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She was wearing a beige trench coat, a tartan checks skirt, leather boots and a floral print umbrella
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What a spicy guy!
We could feel hot when met him!He was wearing a real bright, orange sweater, camouflage pattern roll-up pants (that were rolled up at different length on each side), black sneakers, and a grey beanie
                                                      


In Vancouver, some people were using scarves as an umbrellas.
This man was wearing a brown scarf on top of the dark brown beanie.
And light grey vintage long t-shirt, black brown leather jacket, dark grey skinny pants, black sneakers. His main accessaries were an Americano and a cigarette.
It was a mix of grey&brown!




This man looks like a typical 'Raincouver' fashionable people. (NOT HOMELESS!)
   He was wearing a khaki rain hat, trench coat, green shirt,
deep blue jeans rolled-up, and dark brown soldier boots.
In addition, his moustache made a powerful statement.

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It was difficult to find fashionable people, on rainy days. Nevertheless it was funny because all of us were together.Actually, we admired all the fashionable people so wherever fashionable place, made us hilarious.Even though approaching strange people was scary, Everyone was kind and hospitable.
We really appreciate the nice guys! Thank you!


John' Hottest Street Fashion Trends Fall 2013

 "Mermaid Girl"
Main St
"She was beautiful... I didn't believe that she was realized  in world
when I saw her, she had been walking on the opposite st, but i didn't want to miss the girl. So I just followed her and her beauty, finally I got a photo"
Photo by John Kim
"Mermaid Girl"
Main St
Photo by John Kim



  "Red Girl"
Yale town
"She was so beautiful. so great! I asked her, she allowed me to ask.
We didn't speak any other word. I just wanted to remember her look. we didn't speak anything. Look at her red coordination! Isn't she ... amazing?"
Photo by John Kim



China Town
 "I met them in China town. Because it was Vancouver Fashion Week.
 I couldn't stop my shutter."

Photo by John Kim

China Town
Photo by John Kim





"The Twin Fashion Look"
China Town
"It looks like they are twins. you know? we can find point!!!  Look at her lip colour....
Oh my god! Getting more dressed up! Nobody can't stop them
Lip stick, shoes, gloves, bag, tiara/hats...... all of it is so perfect!!!!! ...
They are completed beauty. Finally, can you see that?
The girl on the left is wearing her under ware outside of her pants! crazy!
 I can't believe it! She is so creative! Crazy underwear!!! "
Photo by John Kim

Dress up for fall.

"Rain-couverite couple."
 Photo by Andrey Moreira
"Speaking Vancouver. "
International House teacher: Monta
 Photo by Andrey Moreira
"Street Style..."
 Photo by Andrey Moreira