Given the hazy air of romance that hangs over their images, it feels strangely appropriate that the backstory to photographer Dae Woong Han and graphic designer Bora Lee’s relationship has a moment of perfect serendipity: having met many years back at a cabaret party in Euljiro, a rising creative neighborhood of northern Seoul, their current studio just happens to look out over the very club where they first locked eyes.
It plays into a number of cultural changes currently being driven forward by millennial Koreans, who have begun to reconsider the more conservative traditions surrounding family and relationships. “I think the development of the Internet and mixing with the different cultures around the world plays a big part in that,” Han adds.
Glamour Shot swiftly developed into a means for Han and Lee to provide mementos for these non-traditional families, in particular to their friends in the LGBTQ+ community; despite growing visibility, same-sex couples are still denied discrimination protection or any form of legal partnership in Korea. “There’s definitely been a rising support of feminism and queer rights, which depart from the traditional Korean family image,” says Lee.
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