Mokpo, 2008
For the March edition of Eloquence, I journeyed to Mopko on the south-west coast of Korea. Some of these photos appeared in the magazine.
 I found these friendly little fellows basking under the winter sun outside a bank on my way to Yudalsan. |
 Bukhang Raw Fish Market. Point to a fish and the shop ahjuma will dice it up for you right there. Yummy, and smelly. |
 The Dried Fish Mall. Also smelly. |
 A shopkeeper in the Dried Fish Mall. |
 The entrance to Yudasal. Admiral Yi Sun-shin looks out commandingly over the city. |
 Nojeokbong, a sacred outcropping. Those people at its base were performing 'gosa', a shaman ritual to bring abundance. The most striking feature of this practice is the stuffing of money in a severed pig's head. |
 Mopko as seen from Yudalsan. |
 A dharma bell next to Nojeokbong. |
 O-po, the Joseon era midday cannon. |
 I have something of an obsession with photographing kimchi pots. My therapists are hard at work to break me of this compulsion. |
 Luminarie Street. |
 Mokpo is often called the City of Lights, thanks to these bright shopping arcades. |