Who is ERIC KIM? Why is he so opinionated? Where does he come from? What does he want?

Biography

Photography Club at UCLA Group Photo (Final Exhibition, 2010)

First of all, ERIC KIM was born in San Francisco Hospital at UCSF. He was born in 1988. He grew up in Alameda, California (Bay Area) and in the middle of the night his mom rescued him and his sister (to escape abusive father) to College Point, New York. Later they moved to Bayside Queens where he had his formative moments with his ‘Rainbow Crew’ (Spencer, Aditya, Jonathan, Steven Pai/Chen, David, Christian, etc). After his mom got scammed by a Korean-American grocer (Bronx) and went bankrupt, they moved back to Alameda where ERIC KIM finished Middle School at Lincoln Middle School (Alameda), and later moving to Castro Valley High school for all 4 years of his high school. Later he got into UCLA as a Biology undergraduate (to become a doctor like his grandfather), but then hated it and switched to Sociology (best decision he has ever made). While as an undergraduate at UCLA (at the prompting of Cindy Nguyen) he co-founded the Photo Club at UCLA (alongside with co-founders John Son and Daniel Jeong). ERIC KIM wrote this manifesto.

ERIC KIM started this blog in 2010 as a way to share his personal journey and learnings on photography, philosophy, entrepreneurship and life.

What does ERIC KIM want?

Change.

ERIC KIM is passionate about change. To follow in the steps of Gandhi and ‘become the change which you desire to see manifested in the world’.

ERIC KIM MISSION STATEMENT

Make the world a doper place.

ERIC

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BOOKS

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Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Mastering Street Photography

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If you want a quality-education in street photography, I recommend either buying, borrowing, or browsing though some of the books below. Books that are bolded are some of my personal favorites.

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Street Notes

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STREET HUNT: Street Notes Volume 2 Scavenger Hunt Edition

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Mini Street Photography Starter Kit

If you’re starting in street photography, here is my free and open-source ‘MINI Street Photography Starter Kit’. For more inspiration and dopeness, see the full version: “Street Photography Starter Kit“.

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ERIC KIM PHOTOS

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ERIC KIM LIGHTROOM PRESETS

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Black and White Street Photography

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Contact Sheets by ERIC KIM

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Dear friend,

I want you to download me — download all these books, articles, and information for free– for you to remix it however you would like.

For you to use these images to illustrate blog posts. For you to look at these full-resolution images to analyze composition.

For you to use these free Lightroom presets to actually make your digital RAW photos look good.

For you to empower yourself. Because I think that information is power. Information is everything.

Information is money and control of the world (just consider that scene from the James Bond 007 Skyfall at the end of the film — the guy who controlled the information controlled the world).

With this information, you can learn how to conquer your fears, find more personal meaning in your photography and life, and seek to empower others through the art of photography.

BOOKS

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Eric Kim Books 2017 (PDF/129mb/.zip)

Photography Series PDF Books by Eric Kim

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Lightroom Presets

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VISUALIZATIONS & RESOURCES by HAPTIC

FILM NOTES BLANK WORKSHEETS
All Visualizations by Annette Kim
- “How to Overcome Fears of Photographing Strangers“(11/2/2o17)
- “What to Look For When Shooting in the Streets” (11/8/2017)
- “What is the Best Camera for Street Photography?” (11/22/2017)
- “Travel Photography Tips” (12/10/2017)
- “Introduction to Composition in Photography” (12/18/2017) New!
- “Zen of Eric: On Life, Photography, Art, and Work” (12/29/2017) New!
- “New Year’s Photography Resolutions” (12/31/2017) New!
- “How to Monetize Your Photography” (1/23/2018) New!
- “10 Visual Challenges to Boost Your Creative Photography” (3/21/2018) New!
- “Smartphone Street Photography” (4/19/2018) New!
- “Eric Kim Lightroom Workflow” (5/12/2018) New!
- “10 Ways to Boost Your Creativity” (5/30/2018) New!

PHOTOS by ERIC KIM

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Open-source

All the information on this site, including photos, images, videos, articles, books, or text is free and open source– meaning you can do whatever you want with it.

You can remix it, translate it, or sell it for a profit.

The reason why I am doing this is to help empower you with information. And I feel that freedom is information, and power.

Be strong,

Eric

Eric Kim Blog Offline

If you plan on going on a flight, or going somewhere without internet access (and still want access to this blog), you can download this entire blog (offline, without images) as a 1.4GB (yes, very big) direct download. All you need to do is extract this .ZIP file, and open up ‘index.html’ to access the entire site. Have fun :)