Urban Reconnaissance

One of my favorite things to do in any new city that I live in is to snap photos of the local urban hardware. With a background in Industrial Design and a love for geometric compositions, it has almost become an anthropological mission of mine to capture visual data of the physical makeup of cities. What Gwangju lacks in architectural beauty, it makes up for with an almost scathed and honest culturally-raw urban skin. All cities share in these personal-but-public, functional aesthetic cues that let us deeper into the city's vein. Here is a morning's worth of some of my findings...