photo essay: Grace Kim

One Night Stand.

I met these men one night at a bar in Homo Hill- the small street that is the center for the gay community in Seoul. They were friendly and engaged, sharing intimate stories and performing for the camera, but when I returned throughout the next few days I could not find most of them again, nor I did feel welcome anymore. Our night was fleeting but in each image time stands still, leaving me to contemplate the moments that we shared, as strangers drawn together by chance for one night.

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GRACE KIM studied photography at the School of Visual Arts and the International Center of Photography (2005) in New York, and currently lives and works in Brooklyn. Her work has recently been published in Zingmagazine, Burn Magazine and Invisible City, and exhibited in Tokyo, Seoul, Indiana and New York. Grace’s first solo exhibition, “Under the Glass Bell, A Dream” took place this September 2009 at Melanie Flood Projects in Brooklyn, NY.