The 67th GRist is from Korea!
Introducing An Tae Young, who also served as a judge for "GR PHOTO FESTIVAL2022".

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The Beginning of Photography

The pencil that started my first sketches on a blank sheet of white paper was the RICOH GX100.
It taught me the basics of color and the emotion of photography through the richness of black and white. It is the camera I am most grateful for, as it has shaped my life as a photographer for the past 17 years.

Since then, I have used various RICOH cameras, and the first shutter of every new moment I encounter is always the GR.

The GR is a camera that makes the ordinary extraordinary, a camera that knows no genre boundaries. With the GR, every moment I encounter is a record and a work of art. I wonder if there is any other camera that you can be so attached to for so long.

My dream is to become the best everyday photographer who deserves the best camera.

An Tae-young was born in Korea in 1974. Although he did not major in photography, he into photography in 2006 with the Ricoh GRD series. In 2008, he made his professional debut by taking 1st place in the "Naver Hood Awards". He mainly has worked on projects for Samsung smartphones and mirrorless cameras. He was the representative of Fujifilm X Photographer in Korea. Currently, he is a judge of a big photo exhibition in Korea and continuously engaged in lectures under the theme of "How to make everyday life special.” He's a GR mania who always carries around GR.

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