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All footage © Enoch Ku, shared with permission
Go properly with-inspired landscaping, overgrown shrubs, and misaligned stripes are merely a couple of of the scenes that comprise Enoch Ku’s Ordinary Sacramento, an ongoing mission documenting the seen language of the Californian metropolis. Ku is adept at determining humor and quirkiness amongst the in every other case mundane metropolis panorama, framing a highway sign or bike rack in a playful technique. Often taken all through a quiet second, the compositions are proof of the photographer’s keen sense of consciousness and talent to have a look at what others might not.
Earlier to launching Weird Sacramento, Ku labored as an actor and marriage ceremony ceremony photographer, two jobs that required him to rush from one place to the subsequent. The tempo of that life-style, in addition to the performative nature of the work, sparked his need to decelerate and doc the world by means of a particular lens. He explains:
In an Instagram world of stylized footage, extraordinarily processed footage, advertisements, and emotional conditioning, I must convey and elevate the wonderful thing about the uncommon and mundane… Staying silent, going gradual, and being present goes in the direction of the grain, and I must encourage those who they’re going to choose that. The world is a stupendous and humorous place.
Prints of Ku’s pictures will be discovered on the Ordinary Sacramento site, and management his Instagram for his first information, My Neighborhood Rosemont, CA (우리 동네 로즈먼트), a visual love letter that’s slated for launch later this yr. (by means of Ignant)
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