An industrial designer and artist from the U.S., Jason Kim captures the mundane and the ordinary. Whether it is a play of light and shadow, movement and stillness, or the contrast of architectural geometry and human form, Jason is able to extract the beauty of the scene.
The author achieves this through the lens of deeper reflection and meaningful pause to observe and experience. Jason admits that photography taught him to “notice the overlooked.” The photography stops the viewers in their tracks and offers a glimpse into the clear, focused mind.
Kim’s photography’s purpose is, paradoxically, contradictory to the idea of achieving it. In the journey to capture emotion, the artist deliberately takes a step back from it by taking color out of the equation, which, in their own words, provided the easiest way to express it.
The shift to black and white, while obviously a challenge, allowed Jason to focus more on light, texture, and composition. A good example of less sometimes being more, and that art, the same as life, is not mainly about the end of the journey but about the journey itself. “I’m still learning,” Kim says, “but I hope others can find something to connect with in my photos.”
Read our “Tenderness” issue in full
In this debut issue, 16 artists from around the world took part in an editorial experiment where the theme emerged organically from the submitted artworks, shaped by what they had in common, and not predefined by editors.
We’re a team of writers using our craft to spotlight art in its most honest form. RAWGUE. started as a bi-monthly editorial experiment where each issue’s theme is dictated by the submitted work, thus removing editorial bias from the equation and preserving a more raw approach. We focus on all forms of poetry: written, photographed, painted, drawn, and filmed.
