Jun J

Short Exposure https://www.junjphoto.com/short

From Seoul to living in New York, I’ve wandered the world and realized:  nothing shines alone.

Everything finds completion in harmony.

I step close to seek individuality, then pull back to see the whole.

A short exposure captures the universal moments of a modern world as fast as SNS, but a printed photo freezes that scene forever.

In a world where our existences intertwine, may you pause and look at it too.

Long Exposure https://www.junjphoto.com/long

I believe only photography can intuitively seize the flow of time.

From a fleeting instant to hours, it captures a place’s breath.

Reading light and composition, I set the Zone, then press the shutter.

Waiting follows, and developing is yet another wait.

Unlike Short Exposure’s quick response, long exposure is the art of slowness.

To me, this work is meditation, practice, and a dialogue with time.

Tiny https://www.junjphoto.com/tiny

Living here and there, I realized—people live the same everywhere.  Conflict exists no matter where you go.  Everything before your eyes is what humanity has built,  every life a proof of existence carried on till now.

No matter how high we stack or how much we gather, the sky stays out of reach. We’re all mortal, small beings.  If we accept this humbly and look at the little things with generosity,  I believe the world could be better.

Pause a moment, and feel the vastness of it all.

What You See https://www.junjphoto.com/what-you-see

What You See Now

What are you looking at now?

Clothed, is it not nude? Exposed, is it nude?

Revealed, it’s vulgar; concealed, it’s art—  who defines that line?

Colors and shapes blur, noise blankets the view.

In this gaze I cast upon the world,

is it intent or interpretation that separates vulgarity from art?

What do you see?

Forever Is Composed of Now https://www.junjphoto.com/forever

Henry David Thoreau — "You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave,

find your eternity in each moment."

A hundred images stack moments.

A fleeting instant leaves fragments, and those fragments weave existence.

Humans dream of eternity within fleeting time.

Life flows on, yet its pieces shape meaning.

Moments linger briefly, overlapping, then fade—ephemeral, yet this now is forever.

This is how we’ve come this far, and how we’ll move forward.

May you pause on the moment and feel the eternal.

The Tree https://www.junjphoto.com/the-tree

Positions the tree as both a marker of time and a presence, set against the city.

The tree’s seasonal cycles reveal nature’s rhythm, while the city’s growth obscures the individual.

Photography freezes their interplay for contemplation, highlighting the vulnerability of a single tree amid urbanization and the significance

of its transformations as a tether to natural processes often lost in urban time.

Over a year, I photographed a tree I glimpsed from a Manhattan bus, capturing its changes to affirm a presence: I was there.

Mirror https://www.junjphoto.com/mirror

Where I stand now, the back remains unseen.

Yet a world exists behind me.

A world visible only when I turn, though it surely shares this same space.

Does what’s unseen cease to exist?

Can we define the mirror’s reflection as ‘real’?