Apartments

 There is no avoiding apartments. In dormitory towns the whole landscape looks like it was rolled out by cylinder seal because the buildings and complexes on every city block are the same shape and colour. I once got very lost in the city of Anyang because I couldn't find any landmarks. In the countryside it's common to see a village, a stream, a hill, and a giant white monolith sticking out of the ground like the vanguard of urbanisation.

With so many apartments in the country, it's no surprise that they appear in so many of my photos. Here are some from a roll of Ilford XP2 Super 400 I made last spring with a Minolta X700 and 50mm lens.

It looks like this tree is pointing at the building and saying, "Remember who will still be here when you are abandoned and crumbling."

I made this photo thinking "I wandered lonely as a cloud", but this fellow looks cheerful.

In spring, after the field flooding but before the planting. I wonder how much of the rice grown in these fields goes to people living in the background apartments. Maybe it goes to a distribution centre somewhere far away and then comes back to Gangneung.