Plans and edits 5ft magazine, a film photography magazine.
Named after Oskar Barnack, who built the first 35mm camera, the Leica Oskar Barnack Award (LOBA) has honored photographers of people and their environment since 1980. This year it goes to Damir Faizulin, a wrestler until 33, for a series on the mountains of Dagestan.
From 《Haru and Mina》, eleven years of photographs of his two sons, to nameless streets abroad and 《Camera Talk》, which photographs people holding cameras. Why do Hideaki Hamada's pictures of someone else's children look like our own childhoods?
Tatsuki Fujimoto's one-shot manga "Look Back" is now a live-action film by Kore-eda Hirokazu. He insisted on 35mm film from the start and spent a year in Akita shooting on Kodak Vision3 500T and 250D. It opened in Korea on October 8.
Sung Jin Park's black-and-white photographs of Seoul teenagers in the 2000s arrive, twenty years on, as the photobook 《Kid Echo》. They were left out of 《Kid Nostalgia》 in 2014. New York's Session Press published the book in September.
Koji Onaka, Haruna Sato, and Susumu Fujita of Gallery KAIDO, an independent photo gallery in Tokyo, will hold an original print exhibition, a book signing, and a slide show at P/A/S/M in Seocho, Seoul, on October 10. Admission is free and no registration is needed.
Shin Noguchi has released a photographic deck with the American playing card company Fulton's Playing Cards. Each card carries one of his photographs with almost no cropping, turning the deck into a small photo book you can carry in your pocket. It comes in three editions: the Fuji Box, the Oni Box, and the Gilded Oni Box.
At Comeamico Gallery, October 21 to 27. Yu Hwa Jung's first solo show gathers eight years of film. A first photo-essay book, self-published, comes out alongside it.
October's photography exhibitions move through wetlands, cities, regional festivals and major retrospectives. From Jeong Bong-chae, Martin Parr and Yoo Seung-ho's 〈BLUE HOUR〉 to Yu Hwa Jung, Deborah Turbeville, Roger Ballen and Photo Jinju 2026.
Tilted frames, shaken focus, rough black-and-white grain. From the unease of the street to the rituals of 《Conflict and Reaction》 and the land of 《Energy》, Lee Gap-chul has photographed a Korean spirit that resists explanation.
Nancy Rexroth, the photographer behind 《IOWA》, a book made with a Diana camera, opens her first retrospective at the Cincinnati Art Museum on October 2. The blur was no accident. It was a standard she set in shooting, in editing and in the darkroom.
Artra has unveiled the CAMERA DUAL ROLLEIFLEX, a wristwatch modeled on the Rolleiflex twin-lens reflex, in a limited edition of 100. Two dials stacked one above the other carry over the twin-lens layout. We look at it alongside the earlier Camera One, whose aperture blades open and close.
At SPACE LEESEEN through September 20. The 「Blue Face, Red Night」 series, shot by casting red and blue light on the bullet marks at Nogeun-ri, the Gyeongsan cobalt mine and the former Gwangju Red Cross Hospital.
Entries are open for just seven days, September 16 to 22. All it takes is one photo shot on film. Last year, 1,000 people entered.
In September, six of a photographer's enlargers become a museum. The Jerry Uelsmann Memorial Hall opens in Gimpo, alongside the Daegu Photo Biennale special exhibitions, the Daejeon Photo Festival 〈Labor〉 and the Incheon International Contemporary Photography Exhibition. This month the action is outside Seoul.
A survey of 1,337 Japanese film photographers. Kodak passed Fuji, but usage of both brands fell. Newcomers filled the gap left by the 40% of 10-year-plus shooters who cut back. The top criterion for choosing a lab is development and scan quality (41%), not price (24%). We also tallied prices at 92 Korean labs.
Actor Yoo Seung-ho's first film photography exhibition, 〈BLUE HOUR〉, runs October 3 to 11 at LAYER 7 in Yongsan, Seoul, with tickets opening September 8 at 7 PM on Naver Booking. Its organizer, Elly Film, has also staged film photography shows by Choi Jung-hoon of Jannabi, Damons Year, Red Velvet's Seulgi and Lee Si-eon.
Eddy Chen, the on-set stills photographer for Euphoria, stepped away from the safe coverage networks asked for and brought film onto the set. The Zendaya key art that defines Season 2 did not come from a poster shoot. It came from a few seconds while the crew was setting the lights.
August is festival month for photography. The Lee Kyung-mo centennial, the Busan International Photo Festival, the Documentary Photo Festival and Incheon's Open Port festival, listed by closing date, from shows ending this week to those running through August.
In a city left in ruins, what he saw was not misery but everyday life starting over. The Seoul Han Youngsoo held onto from 1956 to 1963, and a new photobook coming next May.
Bandages and thread, worn soap and Joseon white porcelain: the long gaze of one photographer, up to the exhibition he has curated now on at Kukje Gallery, 《Objects in Oscillation》.
A director with 17 films behind him took a single camera into a world without staging. His first solo photography exhibition in Europe, 《Park Chan-wook, par un matin calme》, runs at Lee Ufan Arles in France until October 4. An official associated program of Les Rencontres d'Arles, marking 140 years of Korea-France diplomatic relations.
Three shows closing within July and three that run through the summer. Kwak Myung-woo's twenty years, the moon in Daegu, the Onbit Photography Award in Gwangju, and Korea's first Ralph Gibson museum, now open in Busan. Dates and routes in one place.
Magnum photographer Martin Parr died last December. The first major Asian retrospective since his death opens July 16 at Photography Seoul Museum of Art. About 500 works, 14 series, 89 photobooks, and his photographs of South and North Korea from the early 2000s shown for the first time.
US indie brand Optik Oldschool has released a new color film, OptiColour 200, but the emulsion inside is ORWO Wolfen NC200. We look at why the same InovisCoat emulsion is sold under four brands, and the one thing Optik changed.
Light Lens Lab, the Chinese company behind 1:1 replicas of vintage Leica lenses, announced plans to make film in early 2025. A year and a half later, we look at how far it has come in building everything in-house, from emulsion formulas to coating machines and the QC line.
Timed to the World Cup kickoff, Ilford has released Football Collector's Editions of HP5 Plus and XP2 Super. The emulsion is unchanged, and the boxes carry black-and-white football photographs by Expired Film Club.
A still photographer who has documented Yorgos Lanthimos's sets for nearly ten years. On 『Poor Things』, he picked up a film camera instead of a digital one.
15 series and 20 single-image photographers, two galleries, nine days. In June on Nodeul Island, a look at photography's 'moment held still.'
Six shows closing within the month, five running into summer, and the Seoul Photo Festival 〈Come Back Home〉, back after five years. The second weekend of June is the busiest. Dates and routes, all in one place.
On one side, Kodak released VERITA 200D. On the other, word spread fast that Fujifilm's black-and-white line was being wound down. Why the two events arrive at the same conclusion.
SilverBridges, the company Jeff Bridges co-founded, has unveiled the first Widelux prototype, 0001, in Wetzlar, Germany. The swing-lens panoramic camera first made in Japan in 1958 begins its comeback after 26 years.
Portra is back as Ektacolor Pro, and T-Max as Ektapan. More than a name change, it signals that Kodak is selling its own film with its own hands again, for the first time in 14 years.
In October 2025, Lomography released its first 35mm compact with autofocus. The change was clear. So were the wobbles in the first batch.
Lucky brings color back, Shanghai keeps its black-and-white going, and Reflx Lab carries cinema film over to still cameras. Three scenes from China's film scene.
Spring is short, so museums in May get busy. From the Seoul Photo Festival 〈Come Back Home〉 to the GCP opening show, a French photography show at Sungkok Art Museum and Choi Ral-la's solo show: four ways of seeing, running at the same time.
Our second story. Your space, as told by Cinestill 800T: what genre is it? Photographs by Noh Ae-gyeong, Park Soon Yeol and Jang Hyeong-su, an interview with Shin Noguchi, and a full preview of Vol.02.
A short introduction following the key photographs and excerpts from the working notes of Noh Ae-gyeong, Park Soon Yeol and Jang Hyeong-su, the photographers in 5ft.mag Vol.01.
Two pieces of merch we send to everyone who buys 5ft magazine Vol.01, our first issue: an aperture and shutter speed exposure card, and a film box sticker.
We published 22 e-books, then spent another year getting ready. The first official print issue of 5ft.mag is finally on paper. Here is a quick look at what's inside.
