Below is a list of my commission highlights dating back to 2016. This page will be updated regularly. You can also search my photo archive for licensing.
2025
WaPo: South Korea’s likely next leader wants warmer ties with China, North Korea
AFAR: Busan Is South Korea’s Most Underrated City
NYT: A Korean Star Is Growing His Jewelry Line
NYT: South Korea Detains Its President, but Crisis Is Far From Over (Live Coverage)
2024
NYT: South Korea’s President Is Impeached After Martial Law Crisis (Joint/Live Coverage)
NYT: South Korean Leader’s Deal to Avoid Impeachment Risks Bigger Turmoil (Joint/Live Coverage)
Helsingin Sanomat: South Korea’s Martial Law
ZEIT Online: The Defector
NYT: The Four Mysterious Guardians of the Artist Lee Bul
NYT: The DMZ Is an Unhealed Wound for Korea. It’s Also a Source of Great Honey (New York A1)
NYT: To Save His Shrinking City, a Mayor Turns to Koreans Uprooted by Stalin
Helsingin Sanomat: Spring Onions and Dior Dominate South Korea’s General Election
NYT: ‘Get Ready to Scream’: How to Be a Baseball Fan in South Korea
NYT: South Korea Needs Foreign Workers, but Often Fails to Protect Them (International A1)
WSJ: The Woman Shaking Up the $50 Billion Instant-Ramen Industry
Der Spiegel: Jurgen Klinsmann in Korea
2023
CHANEL Culture Fund: Collaboration with LEEUM MUSEUM OF ART
Der Spiegel: North Korea: Why a South Korean takes care of twelve children from the neighboring country
NYT: 7 Urban Walks to Enjoy This Summer
NYT: A Poet of the Night Whose Muses Have 9 Lives
NYT: The South Korean Chefs Redefining the Art of Pastry
NYT: Can K-Pop Make the Metaverse Cool?
Departures: All Eyes on Seoul – A youth-driven creative renaissance is lighting up South Korea (Commissioned portraits and licensing)
NYT: Inside South Korea’s Art-Mad Capital
2022
NYT: 36 Hours in Seoul
Bloomberg Business: This Is Where Most of the World’s Soccer Balls Come From (Licensing)
BMW Magazine: Jeong Kwan
NYT: The Mother of South Korean Men’s Wear Rides the K-Wave
TIME: The World’s Greatest Places 2022
Monocle: ‘Squid Game’ star reflects on the global allure of South Korean culture
2021
Nat Geo: Moments of Grace, Beauty and Joy During a Pandemic
Gestalten: Korean Landscape Photos for ‘Roots and Wings’, a Tribute to the Legendary German Car Designer Peter Schreyer.
WSJ: A Christian Congregation Fled Xi Jinping’s China, but Escaping Control Had a Price
Vox: South Korea’s Covid-19 success story started with failure (In addition to the photos, I am a co-author of this piece.)
Nikkei Asia: Overworked Delivery Workers in Asia’s e-Commerce Boom (Cover story)
2020
Bloomberg Businessweek: How to Live with Virus (2020, Cover story for the Int’l edition, photos and video)
NYT: Kimchi Making at Home Was Going Out of Style. Rural Towns to the Rescue
NTY: Covid-19 Upends South Korea’s Thanksgiving, and Its Rituals (I’m a co-author of the piece.)
brand eins: Pakistani Tekken Champion Arslan Ash
11 Freunde: City of Football – Sialkot, Pakistan
Nat Geo: How South Korea prevented a coronavirus disaster—and why the battle isn’t over (My first commission for NG)
Guardian/Observer: South Korean author Cho Nam-joo: ‘My book is braver than I am’
2019
Yo-Yo Ma: Bach Project in Korea
Hemispheres: Diving Deep with Korea’s Sea Women
DestinAsian: A Look at Seoul’s Flourishing Hanok Culture
Forbes Asia: Unmasking The Hidden Billionaire Behind A Korean Beauty Kingdom (My first magazine cover story)
CNN: A rare look inside Samsung’s secretive ideas lab
Brand Eins: Hansalim – Cooperative for organic products
Guardian: ‘I’m panicking’: Seoul rips out its manufacturing heart
2018
FAZ Quarterly: Jeong Kwan, Culinary enlightenment
NYT: Migrants Expected Warm Welcome on Korean Resort Island. They Were Wrong
VRX Studios: WeWork Beijing Fun
Vox: ER bills: A baby was treated with a nap. His parents got a $18,000 bill
WaPo: She killed 115 people before the last Korean Olympics. Now she wonders: ‘Can my sins be pardoned?
ESPN: North and South Korea look unified for the Olympics, but there’s still a harsh reality (photo and video)
2017
Men’s Journal: An Orphan’s Odyssey: From South Korea to Minnesota and Back Again
Volkskrant: Dutch Heritage in Nagasaki, Japan
NYT: A Seat Near Hitler, and Other Olympic Tales From the Baron, 105 (Liechtenstein)
NYT: North Korea Skaters Seek Olympic Bid, and Diplomats Cheer (First commission for NYT, in Germany)
CNN: Calm but concerned: The mood in Guam
CNN: Unfazed by North Korea’s threats, tourists still heading to Guam
Volkskrant: Generations Helps Each Other in Japan
ESPN: The Dictator’s Team
2016
Guardian Weekend Magazine: ‘How could our country lie so completely?’: meet the North Korean defectors