A photographer that I admire is Jun Song, a Korean skateboarder and Instagram personality. His photos have a similar air of emptiness that I am trying to achieve in my photos, and his stark, clean landscapes have a certain futuristic appeal. Although he deleted most of his work from his Instagram page, I was able to find a couple photos, though they don’t do his body of work justice.
As you can tell, Song has a knack for finding clean, almost sterile landscapes with great lines and shapes, something I aspire to be able to do.
As for my photographs, I wanted to try to take photos of urban environments that feel especially desolate and futuristic, yet nostalgic of the era of the early 2000s, and the mentality of an “urban hell”. It’s hard to describe the feeling I want my photos to evoke, but I would like them to be something lonely and nostalgic, like a walk through an old vacant mall, or looking at an overly-sci-fi’d commercial from the early 2000s.
In this critique, I think my photos formed a contrast between stark, foreboding concrete structures, mixed with splashes of color from other landscapes. I also tried to further enhance the “emptiness” aspect of my photos, working on finding large spaces with no people in them.
