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“Seoul Keeper”
Description:
This photograph shows a street-side arrangement in Seoul’s Jung District, a central neighborhood with long roots in the city’s history. Jung District has been a core residential and commercial area for generations, and scenes like this reflect the character of its older streets.
Story:
There is a quiet bravery in a place like this:
clocks that no longer keep the same hour,
flowers that bloom without seasons,
appliances piled like memories,
each one carrying the weight of use.
It’s the biography of a life lived in the physical
written not in words,
but in the simple persistence of things:
saved, repaired, carried forward.
A younger world won’t leave scenes like this.
Our elders of the future will have no walls of tools,
no gardens made of objects,
no clocks watching over the alley where time moves slowly.
Their hours will sit behind ones and zeros:
encrypted, efficient, unstoried.
This generation leaves footprints you can photograph.
The next will leave only a password.
And so these small, cluttered sanctuaries matter.
They remind us that life was once tactile,
that a lifetime could be measured in objects touched,
not just screens swiped or virtual reality.
Fifty years from now,
there may be no proof
that a life ever filled a space
so fully.
Today, in this quiet corner of Seoul,
the old way endures:
a garden of hours and flowers and stubborn survival,
a visible soul in a world
that is forgetting how to show itself.
-BAP
Location:
Jung District
Seoul, Korea
37° 33' 48.4'' N, 127° 0' 47.1'' E
Google Map Link
Time: 13:54 KST
Date: October 26th, 2023
Camera & Settings:
Single shot
iPhone 15 Pro
ISO 100, 6.86 mm (24 mm), f/1.8, 1/600 sec
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“Seoul Keeper”
Description:
This photograph shows a street-side arrangement in Seoul’s Jung District, a central neighborhood with long roots in the city’s history. Jung District has been a core residential and commercial area for generations, and scenes like this reflect the character of its older streets.
Story:
There is a quiet bravery in a place like this:
clocks that no longer keep the same hour,
flowers that bloom without seasons,
appliances piled like memories,
each one carrying the weight of use.
It’s the biography of a life lived in the physical
written not in words,
but in the simple persistence of things:
saved, repaired, carried forward.
A younger world won’t leave scenes like this.
Our elders of the future will have no walls of tools,
no gardens made of objects,
no clocks watching over the alley where time moves slowly.
Their hours will sit behind ones and zeros:
encrypted, efficient, unstoried.
This generation leaves footprints you can photograph.
The next will leave only a password.
And so these small, cluttered sanctuaries matter.
They remind us that life was once tactile,
that a lifetime could be measured in objects touched,
not just screens swiped or virtual reality.
Fifty years from now,
there may be no proof
that a life ever filled a space
so fully.
Today, in this quiet corner of Seoul,
the old way endures:
a garden of hours and flowers and stubborn survival,
a visible soul in a world
that is forgetting how to show itself.
-BAP
Location:
Jung District
Seoul, Korea
37° 33' 48.4'' N, 127° 0' 47.1'' E
Google Map Link
Time: 13:54 KST
Date: October 26th, 2023
Camera & Settings:
Single shot
iPhone 15 Pro
ISO 100, 6.86 mm (24 mm), f/1.8, 1/600 sec
