FEATURED PHOTOGRAPHER: JOSH WHITE

Josh White is a street photographer from Newfoundland in Canada, and has done the majority of his work in Seoul, Korea. We caught up, chatted about his beginnings, his inspirations, working in film versus digital, why he prefers black and white, and some memories from Seoul.

- Eric Kim

Josh, tell us more about yourself

My name is Josh. I'm originally from Newfoundland in Canada. I lived in Korea for a long time and a lot of people probably know my Korean street photography the most.

For those of who don't know, where exactly is Newfoundland?:

Newfoundland is East-Coast Canada, a small island. It wasn't part of Canada until 1949 - interesting fact.

How did you make it from Newfoundland to Korea?

From Newfoundland I played hockey, went to Wisconsin for a year, and I finished my undergrad in Canada, then I went to law school. I then went to Korea to teach English. After that, I got into photography pretty hard.

How did you first pick up a camera in Korea?

I bought a Leica Digilux 2 because I thought it looked cool in a small camera shop in Namdaemun (a shopping district in Seoul. I really dug it, and eventually bought a Leica M8 and a 35mm f/2 Summicron. I shot with that for a long time and it got me really into it. From that point forward, I pretty much owned every piece of gear in the middle.

Tell us a little bit about your GAS (Gear Acquisition Syndrome) back then?

I got a lot of gear at that time, really.

I've had pretty much every single decent camera at that time you could probably imagine.

Two Leica M8's, two Mg's, a MgP, an M6, M3, M5, that's only Leica.

For Ricoh, GRD 3 twice, GRD 4 twice. Fujifilm X100 twice. Fujifilm classe. Gr21 Ricoh (my favorite camera ever), GR1v, GR1, GR1s.