This week I’m back in Seoul, visiting with friends, welcoming a new baby, eating delicious food and marveling in the joys of public transportation. Being here is a good excuse to share with you some photos I took last fall on my friend Youngdoo‘s ailing Rollei XF35. I usually focus my cameras on the prettier details of this city, but during my final weeks in Seoul, I was intent on trying to capture the truer bits around me and the real things I saw every day while living here. Warts and all. This is the marketplace that was behind my building.

This is the other view (more…)