JKC Photos

JKC Photos Portrait photographer with a background in architecture and graphic design. Based in LA, CA. IG: jkc.photos

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08/10/2019

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One image from my first ever YouTube photo challenge with fellow photogrpaher , go check out his interpretation of this...
08/06/2019

One image from my first ever YouTube photo challenge with fellow photogrpaher , go check out his interpretation of this particular prop on his feed. Looking forward to the video!
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How self-claimed smoothie expert construct his go-to concoction. View more (and the summer playlist) on wekaleide.com (...
07/26/2019

How self-claimed smoothie expert construct his go-to concoction. View more (and the summer playlist) on wekaleide.com (link in bio)
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@ Whole Foods Market

Remember your sunscreen, and the playlist, Pacific Time!- - @ Santa Monica, California
07/13/2019

Remember your sunscreen, and the playlist, Pacific Time!
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@ Santa Monica, California

Lost in the lost world- - @ Laguna Beach, California
07/12/2019

Lost in the lost world
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@ Laguna Beach, California

Summer serenade-If you don’t have with a ukulele, you have Pacific Time, a summer playlist on - - - - - - ...
07/10/2019

Summer serenade
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If you don’t have with a ukulele, you have Pacific Time, a summer playlist on
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@ Los Angeles, California

Between the palms-Kaleide playlist ‘Pacific Time’ on - - - - - - @ Laguna Beach, California
07/09/2019

Between the palms
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Kaleide playlist ‘Pacific Time’ on
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@ Laguna Beach, California

See the image on wekaleide.com (link in bio)-Also, check out the playlist for some summer tunes- - - - - - ...
07/08/2019

See the image on wekaleide.com (link in bio)
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Also, check out the playlist for some summer tunes
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🌴 @ Los Angeles, California

I was at the museum the other day, and one of the work exhibited referenced ‘La Jetée’, a French black and white sci-fi ...
07/08/2019

I was at the museum the other day, and one of the work exhibited referenced ‘La Jetée’, a French black and white sci-fi film from the 60s, directed by Chris Marker. The 28 minutes long short, except for one scene, was told entirely through still images.
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If you image search ‘La Jetée’ on the web, you’ll find about a dozen images people commonly picked to represent the film. But what about the hundreds or so others-they all have part in telling the story, are they worth less because they don’t show up in a search engine?
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Only recently I started to appreciate the importance of supporting images; images that perhaps don’t feature the primary subject matter, but provide contextual detail to round out the story.
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When you have a model on set, with beautiful wardrobe and makeup by the team, it is tempting to always make he/she the focus. But try turn the camera the other way from time to time, and maybe you’ll find an even more beautiful, magical moment.
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@ Los Angeles, California

How to define my style? Like many creators, it’s a challenge trying to summarize what I do in an easily digestible blurb...
07/07/2019

How to define my style? Like many creators, it’s a challenge trying to summarize what I do in an easily digestible blurb. However, sometimes the answer really is right under one’s nose.
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For the past 10 months, I’ve been collecting images while watching movies, as an exercise in understanding framing (check them out in the IG highlight: ‘MOMNT’) I didn’t over-analyze when grabbing these frames, working solely based on instinct. Now looking at the collection, I’m starting to see a pattern:
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- wide shot of landscape or interior, with no people or people simply as accessory
- people deeply absorbed in mid-action, often not engaged with the camera
- an overall sense of mystery and anticipation
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‘Romantic Realism’ is my attempt at describing my current photographic style/art direction: a curated, idealized world that is grounded in reality.
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Relating back to my own work, in the last couple shoots, I’ve been putting more focus on building the scenario around the model. Having a great model is essential, but lately I sense a bit of fatigue on the idea of portrait; rather than just producing an objectively good looking headshot, I want there to be room for interpretation. I guess what I’m getting at is I want to produce photographs of a ‘character’, rather than a ‘person’.
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@ Los Angeles, California

For me, photography is not just about getting THE PHOTO; we have all seen photos that are deemed iconic by the public: s...
07/05/2019

For me, photography is not just about getting THE PHOTO; we have all seen photos that are deemed iconic by the public: such as Dorothea Lange’s ‘Migrant Mother’, but these photos all started out as part of a body of work—I doubt when Dorothea took the shot, her goal was to create an image that will stamp her name in the history of American photography-she simply did her job as a photographer, capture what she sees through her perspective and skill.
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On , we are constantly in pursuit of the THE PHOTO; one that will collect the most ‘likes’, one that will gain you the most followers, one that somehow will be favored by algorithm. The performance of a single photo determines your worth on the platform. But is this mindset healthy? Is pleasing the masses really the ultimate goal?
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I’m not leaving , but I am pursuing alternative platform/method to better showcase my work. Trained under architecture and graphic design, I enjoy sequence building and creating extended experience, things that are disadvantageous when your window of exposure is, literally, a single window on someone’s crowded feed. I need to further distant myself from the pressure of THE PHOTO, and focus on creating a body of work.
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So that’s what Kaleide is about—an external space that will house the majority of my work moving forward; as to exactly what form and shape it will take, only time will tell.
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Who is the masked murderer?... Is he the long lost evil twin brother? Split personality? Is it all a dream? I’m sure you...
06/18/2019

Who is the masked murderer?... Is he the long lost evil twin brother? Split personality? Is it all a dream? I’m sure you can name a teen slasher with any of the above revelation.
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@ Los Angeles, California

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