Eric Kim

Eric Kim

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My first interest in street photography happened by chance. I was standing at a bus stop and I saw a man with horn-shaped glasses reading a book. There was something so genuine and unique about the moment. My heart was palpitating and the second I brought my camera to my eye, he looked directly at me and I instinctively clicked. My heart froze, but I made my first street photograph, without even realizing it."

I've come to the conclusion that the theme within my street photography is "Individuals". 

It seems to have been within my natural style when capturing street photographs to capture images of individual people rather than any kind of  busy street scenes. After noticing this accidental theme i have carried it on and in my most recent two rolls of film I've purposely looked out for interesting individuals to capture images of.

I thought it would obviously be really helpful to find another photographer that shares a similar style to mine, other than that of loy-chuan, who i previously blogged about. when searching in Google for street photographers that capture images of individuals, the work of Eric Kim came up. 


here i have selecteda few of the images which i feel relate most to the work i have been producing myself. The more natural images where it is clear the person is unaware of their photo being taken are what relate best to my photography. 

"The City of Angels"

This image is definitely my favorite of the ones i have found. It relates best to my work as the individual is central to the image. The shot includes the majority of the body, then being cut off at about the knee area. This is roughly the same amount of the person I seem to also capture in my own work. The shot is roughly taken from the same distance as what i have managed to take mine at. The male is interesting to look at and appears to be fairly aged, this again relates very much so to the people I have captured in my work. What's different about this image and is really successful in my opinion is that there seems to have been a flash used. This really creates a bold contrast between the dramatic black and white tones in the image. If i had longer for this project I definitely would consider starting to experiment with the use of a flash, to achieve images such as this one or like the work of Bruce Gilden. 

                                         

http://erickimphotography.com/index.php?/project/the-city-of-angels/