ERIC KIM

Become a Photography Entrepreneur

Photography entrepreneurship is the goal.

Why?

If photography is your passion, why spend even a minute NOT doing what you don’t wanna do? Why not devote yourself to photography? In that sense,,, photography entrepreneurship is the goal.

What did HCB and Robert Capa do?

Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson founded Magnum (with David Chim Seymour) because they wanted more editorial control and freedom. They were the OG photography entrepreneurs.

  • FRANCE. Paris. The photographers David SEYMOUR “Chim” (left) and Robert CAPA. 1952.
  • Robert Capa with George Rodger in Naples, 1943
  • Contax II, the camera Capa used during this period.
  • Robert Capa / Magnum Photos. FRANCE. Arras. March 23rd, 1945. An American Parachutist preparing to board the plane for the jump accross the Rhine River.
  • Robert Capa / Magnum Photos
  • Robert Capa / Magnum Photos. Leon Trotsky, 1932
  • Portrait of Gerda Taro and Robert Capa
  • Robert Capa / Magnum Photos. ISRAEL. Haifa. 1949-50. Woman carrying luggage accompanied by a small boy.
  • Robert Capa photographed by Ruth Orkin
  • Robert Capa / Magnum Photos. ITALY. 1944. Drivers from the French ambulance corps near the front, waiting to be called.
  • Robert Capa / Magnum Photos. ITALY. Naples. October 2, 1943. Women crying at funeral of twenty teenaged partisans who had fought the Germans before the Allies entered the city.
  • Robert Capa / Magnum Photos. GERMANY. Leipzig. April 18, 1945. American soldierkilled by a German sniper.
  • Robert Capa / Magnum Photos. GERMANY. Near Wesel. March 24th, 1945. American paratroopers landing in Germany.
  • A notebook of Robert Capa with contact prints

What do you want?

I want to push, drive, and elevate the culture, vision, and grandeur to the next level. I am very dissatisfied with the state of photography now. I see myself as strong enough to elevate the culture of photography.

I see no other photographer as great as me (currently living) in terms of blogging, photography, vlogging, entrepreneurship, etc. I am the only photographer I know who has strong photos, who has great charisma and teaching skills, the ability to vlog and YouTube, and my ability to cross-pollinate very interesting ideas to photography. Also I do not know any photography entrepreneur who is as buff and swole as me, and as physically strong (455 deadlift). I see myself as the new JAY Z of photography, or perhaps the new MJ of photography. I also feel the blood of Steve Jobs in me.

It is all about you

The reason I am so vain and into myself:

I want to prove … that a great individual, entrepreneur is possible.

Honestly, there ain’t nothing special about me. I am very average. I have no real attributes which distinguish me. I see myself more or less as a generic Asian guy.