Almost Something - Hanna Moon

“Almost Something,” Hanna Moon’s first photobook (not counting her self-published issues of “A Nice Magazine”), is a personal dive into life in her native country of South Korea. Taken over a period of ten years, during which Moon first lived in South Korea then traveled back for occasional trips as her career progressed, offers a unique and intimate view into life in South Korea. Against the country’s highly curated and internationally projected self-image, Moon’s take is more unvarnished and direct. Though various scenes and sights will be familiar to anyone with an interest in recent pop culture, “Almost Something’s” shots of flash-lit friends eating at street stalls, grandmas in neon-pink gloves preparing kimchi (food is, of course, a recurring subject) or snapshots from the streets of Seoul and Daejon feel fresh and stimulating.