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I was born in 1984 in Seoul, South Korea. I then quickly moved to France at the age of four-month-old. I studied physics for my undergrad and international business for my Master degree. I am now looking for a job in the sustainability space.

I started to shoot my first rolls in 1999 when my father gave me his old Olympus OM-1. Although I was fairly reluctant to go digital, I am now exclusively using digital cam at the expenses of my OM-1 unfortunately.



I run three topics on different forums:
- Sociology Research

- $$$ Get The Right To Take A Picture $$$

- What kind of Hong Kong citizens are you?



You will find as followed the suggested soundtrack in my Musical Portfolio:
- ACDC - "Hard As A Rock"
- Amstrong, Louis - "What A Wonderful World"
- Aphex Twin - "Avril 14th"

- Bach, Johann Sebastian - "Air" / Suite for Orchestra no 3 in D major"
- Bashung, Alain - "Madame Rêve"
- Beethoven - "Moonlight Sonata"
- Björk - Anchor Song (The)

- Chopin, Frédéric - "Nocturne for piano No. 2 in E flat major"

- Dougan, Rob - "Clubbed To Death"

- Faithless - "Insomnia"
- Furtado, Nelly - "All Good Things (Come To An End)"

- Gainsbourg, Serge - "Je suis venu te dire que je m'en vais"

- Jamiroquai - "Cosmic Girl"

- Marcel et son Orchestre - "Les Vaches"
- Metheny (Pat) & Lyle Mays - "As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls
- Morricone, Ennio - "Man With The Harmonica"
- Morricone, Ennio - "Silhouette of Doom"

- Radiohead - "High and Dry"

- Satie, Erik - "Gymnopédie I"
- Serra, Eric - "She's Dead / Leon The Professional OST"
- Shostakovich, Dmitri - "Waltz No.2 From Suite For Jazz Orchestra No.2"
- Sonic Youth - "Unwind"

- Telepopmusic - "Just Breathe"



For any commercial etc purposes, please feel free to contact me by email. FYI, I treat my photos in RGB color space therefore I do not guarantee the same result in CMYK. I have found this forum I believe it is worth to have a look at: monitor adjustment.



Special thanks to:
- My father.

- All the people that I have met and that I have shot.

- Angelique Tabuteau, Francine Seinturier, Isabelle Goncalves, Elaine Tam and Verica Cheung who made my 2005-2006 exchange year in Hong Kong possible. That was my first time experience to leave my parent's, to go to Asia and to share a twin-bed room with a local HK student. This has definitely encouraged me to come back to Asia.

- Christina Lutze that I met during my first trip in Guangxi province 广西, China 中國 in October 2005 and who made me discover Flickr.

- Catherine Chen, my dear friend, your future US secretary of state, my fellow traveler, my interpreter and my translator who made our trip definitely easier in China, Yunnan province during April 2006. Thx Cat ! I'll upload my pictures as soon as possible! A glimpse of one of our experience? Look at this

- "Your photos always have different mood, I love to see all. Thanks for making these photos for us to see the world on different angle." - Kasama Rohitrattana

- Louis Tsui, my Hong Kong roommate.

- "I am browsing the photos you take in your album. You are really a wonderful photographer. It's all from the theme of the pix, to the colours, to the feel that give out and to the overall impressions. Really great. Every pic is vivid." - Karine Chan



Non-exhaustive list of the places I wish to visit before I'll die
- Argentina
- Burning Man / Black Rock Desert, NV, US
- Egyptian pyramids, Egypt
- Grand Canyon, US
- Ha long Bay, Vietnam
- Lhasa, Tibet
- Machu Picchu, Peru
- Mecca, Saudi Arabia (will be very difficult)
- Mongolia
- Petra, Jordan



Favorite movies
- 25th Hours, 2046, (500) Days of Summer

- The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Alien Quadrilogy, Amen, American Gangster, Apocalypse Now, Appleseed Ex Machina, l'Auberge Espagnole, Austin Powers, Avatar, The Aviator

- Babel, Back To The Futur Trilogy, The Banquet, Be Cool, The Big Blue, The Big Lebowski, Black Hawk Down, Black Swan, Blade Runner, Blood Diamond, Blood: The Last Vampire, Blue in the Face, In Bruges

- Casino, Catch Me If You Can, The Chinese Feast, Cidade de Deus, City Hunter, Children of Men, A Chinese Odyssey Part One: Pandora's Box, A Chinese Odyssey Part Two: Cinderella, Clean, Collateral, Company Man, Contagion, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

- Defendor, Die Hard, Die Hard: With a Vengeance, District 9, Doberman, Do The Right Thing.

- Eastern Promises, Eight Diagram Pole Fighter

- Fearless, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Fifth Element, Fight Club, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, Fist of Legend, Full Metal Jacket

- Getting Any?, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, Ghost In The Shell, Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Gladiator, The Godfather, Gomorra, Goodbye South Goodbye, Grave of the Fireflies, Gran Torino

- La Haine, Happy Times, Happy Together, The Hangover, The Hangover Part II, Heat, Heartbreak Ridge, Hero, A History of Violence, Hot Shots!, Howl's Moving Castle

- I Love You Phillip Morris, If You Are the One, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Inglourious Basterds, Innocence, The International, The Island

- Jin-Rô

- Kill Bill Vol1, Kill Bill Vol2, The King's Speech, Kung Fu Dunk, Kung Fu Panda

- Last Action Hero, Leaving Las Vegas, Leon The Prodessional, Letters from Iwo Jima, Life Is Beautiful, The Limey, Little Miss Sunshine, Lords of Dogtown, Lost In Translation, Love Collage

- Man Bites Dog: It Happened in Your Neighborhood, Masculin Féminin, Miami Vice, Millennium Mambo, Miller's Crossing, Miyazaki's Spirited Away, Monrak Transistor, Moon, The Motorcycle Diaries

- Napoleon Dynamite, Natural City, My Neighbor Totoro, Nikita, Nowhere

- Ocean's Eleven, Old Boy, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, OSS 117, Le Péril Jeune

- The Pianist, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Planet Terror, Platoon, Planet Terror, Porco Rosso, Pulp Fiction

- Requiem For A Dream, Rescue Dawn, Reservoir Dogs, Restrepo

- My Sassy Girl, Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List, Shining, Shinobi: Heart Under Blade, Shoot 'Em Up, Smoke, Smokin' Aces, Snatch

- The Taste of Tea, Team America: World Police, Thank You for Smoking, The Thin Red Line, The 36th Chamber of Shaolin, Three Kings, Time, Traffic, Trees Lounge, Tron: Legacy, True Romance, Tuya's Marriage, Twelve Monkeys, Twin Town

- Up, Up The Yangtze

- Vanilla Sky, The Vertical Ray Of The Sun, The Victim

- W., Wall E, We Own The Night, Wolf's Rain, Woman Is the Future Of Man

- Yi Yi

- Zombieland


Favorite Series
- The Big Bang Theory, Breaking Bad
- Dexter
- Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
- How I Met Your Mother
- Malcom in the Middle, Monk
- Scrubs, Sex and the City, Sons of Anarchy
- That 70s Show, True Blood
- The Walking Dead