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"Though I desire to at least posess on film every such tender thing that is glimpsed and brushes past, no matter how much I shoot most of what I want simply flows away like water spilling through a net, and always what remains are only vague, elusive fragments of images, somewhere between afterimages and latent images that sink into countless strata of my mind." -Daido Moriyama [Memories of a Dog]
At the age of 31 I packed up my life and moved from the United States to South Korea in order to teach English. I needed to shake up my life a little. And it worked; things were definitely shaken up (in a good way).
In March of 2007 I bought myself a DSLR in order to document my life on the other side of the planet. After some months of rekindling a passion for photography and reacquainting myself with the fundamentals, I sold off the DSLR and purchased a film rangefinder to replace it. I am in love with film and have been shooting with it ever since.
After 18 months in Korea, I returned to Portland, Oregon to be with my soon-to-be wife. After one year. we were married and returned to Korea together. I live Busan.
"good photography restores the mystery of the world by stopping time so that we can both see and reflect upon what is there. hence the unending strangeness of photography: that it both documents the world, establishes what is essentially there, while at the same time showing to us what we cannot see with our eyes alone. so if photography has a redeeming or cleansing effect on our vision, it is because it seems to restore both the reality of the world and its essential elusiveness."
-michael ignatieff, magnum degrees
"When God gives you a really good shot, don't rat Him out. Claim it as your own." -Bill Pierce
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Contacts (477)
Groups (50)
- Urban Photo Magazine 7,551 photos, 300 members
- Shot Eat Shot 3,374 photos, 292 members
- The Defining Touch 2,827 photos, 210 members
- Busan Lightstalkers 40 photos, 20 members
- CARTIFACTS 15,875 photos, 544 members
- Textures Collision 2,360 photos, 142 members
- Lee Friedlander Evolution 1,194 photos, 55 members
- Landscapist 1,609 photos, 938 members
- Hardcore Landscape Photography 52 photos, 140 members
- Don't Be A Lemming 535 photos, 727 members
- chronotope 3,932 photos, 562 members
- PARIS-GA┃巴里画 284 photos, 32 members
- Small Growers Street Association 1,419 photos, 262 members
- Contract Killers 2,847 photos, 497 members
- City Slickers 249 photos, 163 members
- Analog Korea 1,386 photos, 54 members
- exchange platform 49 photos, 10 members
- Dust Magazine 2 photos, 147 members
- The Social Landscape 11,736 photos, 353 members
- the defiant eye 6,310 photos, 175 members
- flaneur 14,715 photos, 462 members
- Street Photography International 36,005 photos, 1,655 members
- Take it till you make it 500 photos, 10 members
- Streetsy.com 357,233 photos, 5,960 members
- Boing Boing 47,624 photos, 3,908 members
- B&W Film Grain 12,979 photos, 721 members
- At war with the obvious 12,581 photos, 1,253 members
- Social Landscapes - Unpopulated 8,949 photos, 279 members
- Street Legal 3,176 photos, 299 members
- Democratic Forest 34,641 photos, 873 members
- Street Photography Zine 1,732 photos, 328 members
- Altered States of Agoraphobia 3,575 photos, 296 members
- Surreal moment 270 photos, 205 members
- New Topographics 29,700 photos, 1,014 members
- MORE WITH LESS 1,600 photos, 340 members
- Truth Magazine 22 photos, 224 members
- Alec Soth's "From Here To There" Flickr Project 2,227 photos, 1,200 members
- Fraction Magazine 19,193 photos, 2,256 members
- Aut - Aut 63,575 photos, 1,630 members
- William Klein School 1,874 photos, 290 members
- urban poetry 63,147 photos, 2,589 members
- Mint Magazine 27,770 photos, 1,436 members
- MOSSLESS MAGAZINE 12,161 photos, 3,012 members
- Populated by Vegetation 883 photos, 460 members
- Infilmdels 801 photos, 49 members
- Feeling Negative? 9,229 photos, 589 members
- Contax T2 16,458 photos, 1,398 members
- Street Noir 576 photos, 1,098 members
- Today's Art is on the Wall: Photographic Documentation 17,969 photos, 529 members
- Wooster Collective 363,326 photos, 6,697 members
Galleries (1)
- America the beautiful 10 photos
Testimonials (2)
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John Goldsmith says:
"Quirky and playful. I like."
27th December, 2008
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gumanow says:
"I've quickly become a fan of Lee's work. He has a keen eye for composition and for when things are going to happen. I learn from him every time we go out shooting together. He has incredible patience and the ability to hold back on the shutter to get his composition just right. I'm so happy to have Lee as a friend, neighbor street shooter, and contact."
31st October, 2008












