I made this photograph five years ago and I look for the dog whenever I pass by this shop that makes signature stamps. Sadly, I still haven’t seen this friendly and well-mannered pooch again.
Faces of Fashion
Most shops in Korea don’t open until ten in the morning, so there are a few early hours for timid people like me to make photos of display windows.
Downtown Gangneung
The second roll of film I put in my new Samsung Minolta X-700 was Ilford HP5+.
From The Archive: Window Display
This is the side window of a shop display in downtown Gangneung. The pipes are coming out of the building for something, but I don’t know what. Is this where fire engines connect their hoses?
From the Archive – Chair in Anmok Village

I seem to recall carefully setting up a tripod to photograph this chair against the yellowish wall of a run-down fishing tackle shop in Anmok. It was early morning and there were very few people around. As I was making the photo, the owner, an old woman in a loose dress, came out and glared at me. I finished making the photo and scurried off.
Anmok was once a collection of tired houses, raw fish restaurants, and coffee vending machines. Anmok became well-known for the dozens of coffee vending machines lining the main road of the village and it was something to come and see. Developers sniffed out an opportunity, and in a few years the old houses and shops and vending machines were gone, replaced by franchised coffee shops and a Starbucks. There is no charm left in the area now, but money is being made hand over fist by people who may have never even been to the village . . . .