Seoul Fashion Week

I took a walk around the 2022 Spring/Summer Seoul Fashion Week venue at the Dongdaemun Design Plaza. I loved seeing models and visitors of all ages, dressed up and ready to strike a pose.

An attendee poses for a photo during the 2023 Spring/Summer Seoul Fashion Week at the Dongdaemun Design Plaza in Seoul on October 12, 2022. (Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP)

A man and woman pose for photographers during the 2022 Spring / Summer Seoul Fashion Week at the Dongdaemun Design Plaza in Seoul on October 13, 2022. (Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP)

South Korean model Kim See-hwa (back) poses as photographers take photos during the 2023 Spring/Summer Seoul Fashion Week at the Dongdaemun Design Plaza in Seoul on October 12, 2022. (Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP)

A child model poses a photos during the 2023 Spring/Summer Seoul Fashion Week at the Dongdaemun Design Plaza in Seoul on October 12, 2022. (Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP)

Child models share a moment between posing for photos during the 2023 Spring/Summer Seoul Fashion Week at the Dongdaemun Design Plaza in Seoul on October 12, 2022. (Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP)

An attendee visits the 2022 Spring / Summer Seoul Fashion Week at the Dongdaemun Design Plaza in Seoul on October 13, 2022. (Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP)

An attendee poses for a photo during the 2023 Spring/Summer Seoul Fashion Week at the Dongdaemun Design Plaza in Seoul on October 12, 2022. (Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP)

Photographers take photos as a woman poses during the 2022 Spring/Summer Seoul Fashion Week at the Dongdaemun Design Plaza in Seoul on October 13, 2022. (Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP)

Visitors walk around the grounds during the 2023 Spring/Summer Seoul Fashion Week at the Dongdaemun Design Plaza in Seoul on October 12, 2022. (Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP)

Seoul-based US model Jaspreet Kaur (C) poses as photographers take photos during the 2023 Spring/Summer Seoul Fashion Week at the Dongdaemun Design Plaza in Seoul on October 12, 2022. (Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP)

South Korean model Kim See-hwa (back C) poses as photographers take photos during the 2023 Spring/Summer Seoul Fashion Week at the Dongdaemun Design Plaza in Seoul on October 12, 2022. (Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP)

First post in six years…

I’m now living in Seoul, having been posted here by AFP last year. It’s been great so far and I feel so lucky to be working with such a great team in the bureau. Part of my mission here is to visit North Korea and I can’t wait to start doing so once borders have reopened. Earlier this week I joined a media tour to the JSA. It was an incredible experience and I highly recommend a visit once it’s open again to the general public.

UNC (United Nations Command) soldiers (R) and a South Korean soldier (L) stand guard before North Korea’s Panmon Hall (rear C) and the military demarcation line separating North and South Korea, at the Joint Security Area (JSA) of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) in the truce village of Panmunjom on October 4, 2022. – North Korea fired a mid-range ballistic missile on October 4, which flew over Japan, Seoul and Tokyo said, a significant escalation as Pyongyang ramps up its record-breaking weapons-testing blitz. (Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP)

A photo taken from the truce village of Panmunjom, also known as the Joint Security Area (JSA) inside the demilitarized zone (DMZ) separating South and North Korea, shows a North Korean using binoculars to look at the South side on October 4, 2022. (Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP)

A South Korean soldier (R) and a UNC (United Nations Command) soldier (L) walk inside a military armistice committee meeting room at the truce village of Panmunjom between North and South Korea on October 4, 2022. – North Korea fired a mid-range ballistic missile on October 4, which flew over Japan, Seoul and Tokyo said, a significant escalation as Pyongyang ramps up its record-breaking weapons-testing blitz. (Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP)

A South Korean soldier stands guard inside a military armistice committee meeting room at the truce village of Panmunjom between North and South Korea on October 4, 2022. – North Korea fired a mid-range ballistic missile on October 4, which flew over Japan, Seoul and Tokyo said, a significant escalation as Pyongyang ramps up its record-breaking weapons-testing blitz. (Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP)

A visitor is pictured from inside a military armistice committee meeting room at the truce village of Panmunjom, as she looks out of a window, in the Joint Security Area (JSA) of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) on October 4, 2022. – North Korea fired a mid-range ballistic missile on October 4, which flew over Japan, Seoul and Tokyo said, a significant escalation as Pyongyang ramps up its record-breaking weapons-testing blitz. (Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP)

A UNC (United Nations Command) soldier (back R) is pictured from inside a military armistice committee meeting room at the truce village of Panmunjom, as he stands guard near the military demarcation line (bottom L) separating North and South Korea, in the Joint Security Area (JSA) of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) on October 4, 2022. – North Korea fired a mid-range ballistic missile on October 4, which flew over Japan, Seoul and Tokyo said, a significant escalation as Pyongyang ramps up its record-breaking weapons-testing blitz. (Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP)

A UNC (United Nations Command) soldier (L) and South Korean soldiers walk in the Joint Security Area (JSA) of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) in the truce village of Panmunjom on October 4, 2022. – North Korea fired a mid-range ballistic missile on October 4, which flew over Japan, Seoul and Tokyo said, a significant escalation as Pyongyang ramps up its record-breaking weapons-testing blitz. (Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP)

A South Korean soldier stands guard at the Joint Security Area (JSA) of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) in the truce village of Panmunjom on October 4, 2022. – North Korea fired a mid-range ballistic missile on October 4, which flew over Japan, Seoul and Tokyo said, a significant escalation as Pyongyang ramps up its record-breaking weapons-testing blitz. (Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP)

South Korean soldiers march in the truce village of Panmunjom inside the demilitarized zone (DMZ) separating the two Koreas on October 4, 2022. – North Korea fired a mid-range ballistic missile on October 4, which flew over Japan, Seoul and Tokyo said, a significant escalation as Pyongyang ramps up its record-breaking weapons-testing blitz. (Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP)

A United Nations Command (UNC) soldier looks at a view of North Korea near the truce village of Panmunjom inside the demilitarized zone (DMZ) separating the two Koreas, on October 4, 2022. – North Korea fired a mid-range ballistic missile on October 4, which flew over Japan, Seoul and Tokyo said, a significant escalation as Pyongyang ramps up its record-breaking weapons-testing blitz. (Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP)

North Korea’s propaganda village of Gijungdong is pictured from a South Korea observation post inside the demilitarized zone (DMZ) separating South and North Korea on October 4, 2022. – North Korea fired a mid-range ballistic missile on October 4, which flew over Japan, Seoul and Tokyo said, a significant escalation as Pyongyang ramps up its record-breaking weapons-testing blitz. (Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP)

A South Korean soldier stands guard in front of a view of North Korea (back) in the truce village of Panmunjom inside the demilitarized zone (DMZ) separating South and North Korea on October 4, 2022. – North Korea fired a mid-range ballistic missile on October 4, which flew over Japan, Seoul and Tokyo said, a significant escalation as Pyongyang ramps up its record-breaking weapons-testing blitz. (Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP)

In this picture taken near the truce village of Panmunjom inside the demilitarized zone (DMZ) separating the two Koreas, a bird flies near a North Korean flag fluttering in the wind at the propaganda village of Gijungdong in North Korea on October 4, 2022. – North Korea fired a mid-range ballistic missile on October 4, which flew over Japan, Seoul and Tokyo said, a significant escalation as Pyongyang ramps up its record-breaking weapons-testing blitz. (Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP)

New tear sheets and my first photo on front of New York Times

This story felt important while I was shooting these pics, but I really didn’t expect them to get so widely used. I did a very small tight edit and only filed a few for the wire, which my colleague Dale helped me choose. I also got a photo on the front of my favourite paper, the New York Times, a happy first! The photo at the bottom was filed a couple of days later as a tight crop, after consulting first with HK photographer Philippe and my boss Pedro.

 

 

Clockenflap Festival

We have an awesome annual music festival called Clockenflap. Here are a couple of my snaps that got used recently. You can see other pics from the festival on my website here: www.anthonywallacephotography.com/clockenflap-festival

SCMP gets bought by Alibaba

I took these on Saturday to illustrate the SCMP being bought by Alibaba. I spent around 30 minutes crouching in a dirty gutter while trying to get the third pic down!

 

Tearsheets from The Guardian and Le Monde

*There was a big advert on the Guardian web page where this article appeared so I used Photoshop to move the Guardian logo. Please click on the top tear-sheet to see it in its original form.

Snappy snap

This picture has been making the rounds in the local online press. Funnily, it’s the one I put the least amount of effort into when I was covering the elections last weekend. I hurriedly snapped it as I walked past the banner on the way to a presser because it was such an obvious and cheesy illustration. I sent it a couple of minutes later and a possible reason it’s been used is that it was the first photo on any wire on the subject, so they would have had nothing else to go with! Not too sure about the crop they made though… More pics to follow soon.

Some tear sheets from the past couple of weeks

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Some new tear-sheets

I’ve not done an update for a while, but here are some recent examples of my photos being used in various publications, including Time Magazine, LA Times, Evening Standard, International Business Times, Economist, plus some others.

Man in Macau

A man looks on towards the Sai Van bridge which links Macau with Taipa and Cotai as a Chinese flag (C, red) flaps in the wind in Macau on May 12, 2015. The former Portuguese colony saw its second-worst monthly casino revenue decline of 39 percent year-on-year for March, as China encourages its semi-autonomous territory to diversify from gambling and reins in high-rolling visitors from the Chinese mainland. The fall has mostly been attributed to a corruption crackdown spearheaded by Chinese President Xi Jinping, which has dented the VIP gaming market. AFP PHOTO / ANTHONY WALLACE