My name is Jacob Jun -

My photography journey began in South Korea in 2007. Burnt out, unemployed, and ready for change, I jetted to the land where I was born to teach English, save up for film school, and learn more about the culture my parents grew up in. I bought a Canon 40D a few months into my teaching stint and met up with a foreign-born actor who wrote scripts in his off-time. I brought my camera to our skeleton crew shootings and to the other places I visited in South Korea.

Heart and Seoul -

It wasn’t the first time I bought a DSLR. The first experiment lasted several months until I threw in the towel and returned the kit back to the store I bought it from.

It was time to try again, and still I encountered the same problems — why weren’t my pictures as vivid and bright as the pictures I’d seen in magazines? Where could I get more instruction in getting the most out of my camera? Do I need to learn Photoshop or some equivalent?

I stayed in South Korea for two years and I came back home a little bit wiser, stronger, and hungrier. I decided to put my film dreams on hold and put my camera to grind in my quest to make a profession out of a passion.

Candor Studios -

The name’s a holdover from a band I wanted to start. Now it stands for honesty, sincerity, and effort. The plan isn’t to become the best photographer ever — it’s the desire to become the best I can be. It means developing my own eye, improving on my composition, and getting clients photographs they want to keep looking at. At Candor Studios, the subject is you. As a photographer, I’m the one standing behind the camera. There’s a relationship between photographer and subject that’s explored through a lens.

To me, photography is a quest to capture the subject. It’s about art. It’s about memories. It’s about moments. It’s about life.

And I’ll say it again: It’s about you.