Don't grow up, it's a trap. MUTZINE's Editor-In-Chief (
@gissella.info) talks growing pains with Juun Lee (
@juunli), a 3rd year Chemical Engineering student, former street fashion photographer, and co-founder of emerging streetwear label and social collective
Adulescent. / Photos by Juun Lee & Alex Finch
You were active as a street fashion photographer. How did you fall into that?
Juun: My mother is interested in fashion and around 3 years ago while I was serving in the military she bought me books like
The Sartorialist. After the military I resumed college for a semester and then took a break and went to Vancouver with the intent to study English for six months. During my last month in Vancouver I decided that I also had to visit Los Angeles and New York. I got to New York just in time for New York Fashion Week and I was really interested in seeing what it was all about. On the first day I saw Nick Wooster and I thought that this was a really great chance so I bought a camera and started shooting 4 days in a row.
Were you by yourself? Or did you meet up with other Korean street fashion photographers?
Juun: Yeah, I was by myself. But I saw some famous Korean photographers guys and I approached
HB Nam to say that I was his fan. He’s actually the first Korean street photographer to become well known, back in 2011. He’s been featured in some Korean reality tv shows, he released a book and it really influenced others to get into street fashion photography too.
So what happened next?
Juun: I came back to Korea on October 2014 and I still had around 5 months before the following semester started, so I sent emails to some Korean fashion magazines.
Camscon, a digital street fashion platform recruited me as a full time photographer. I started shooting for them the following week.
That escalated quickly!
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SOURCE: MUTZINE
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