ARGUS PAUL
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  • Articles / Interviews / Features
    • UP Photographers | Interview with Argus Paul Estabrook
    • Life Framer Journal | Looking Out and In With ARGUS PAUL ESTABROOK
    • LensCulture Street Photography Awards 2021 | Reflections Inside the Seoul Metro
    • The Phoblographer | Argus Estabrook Finds Stories Worth Telling by Using Intimacy
    • The Magnum and LensCulture Photography Awards 2017 Winners
    • The Magnum and LensCulture Photography Awards 2017 | Losing Face: Inside the Fall of South Korea’s President
    • Musée Magazine | Weekend Portfolio: Argus Paul Estabrook
    • 2018 Critical Mass Top 50
    • 2017 Critical Mass Top 50
    • PDN Emerging Photographer | Vol. 10, No. 1
    • CRITIC’S VIEW: Politics, Strangers & Art Not to Miss at Spring/Break 2018
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  • Photography
    • Ongoing >
      • How to Draw a Line
      • Reflections Inside The Seoul Metro
    • New >
      • Fare Adjustment
    • Previous >
      • 2020 >
        • I AM NOT A VIRUS
      • 2019 >
        • Stage Left
      • 2018 >
        • This Is Not an Exit
      • 2017 >
        • Heartfelt Welcome
        • Losing Face
        • School Memories: The Loss in Danwon High
      • 2016 >
        • Wrestling In The Streets Of Seoul
  • Articles / Interviews / Features
    • UP Photographers | Interview with Argus Paul Estabrook
    • Life Framer Journal | Looking Out and In With ARGUS PAUL ESTABROOK
    • LensCulture Street Photography Awards 2021 | Reflections Inside the Seoul Metro
    • The Phoblographer | Argus Estabrook Finds Stories Worth Telling by Using Intimacy
    • The Magnum and LensCulture Photography Awards 2017 Winners
    • The Magnum and LensCulture Photography Awards 2017 | Losing Face: Inside the Fall of South Korea’s President
    • Musée Magazine | Weekend Portfolio: Argus Paul Estabrook
    • 2018 Critical Mass Top 50
    • 2017 Critical Mass Top 50
    • PDN Emerging Photographer | Vol. 10, No. 1
    • CRITIC’S VIEW: Politics, Strangers & Art Not to Miss at Spring/Break 2018
  • Contact
  • CV
ARGUS PAUL
Argus Paul Estabrook ​ 

BIOGRAPHY
I'm a biracial Korean-American photographer who works in both South Korea and the USA. Frequent travel between these two countries has provided me a unique perspective of Korean identity and its relationship to both global and regional communities. Artistically, I consider myself a street photographer that sometimes takes the camera inside to tell personal stories. I am a member of Native Agency and Diversify Photo.

My work has been awarded by the Magnum Photography Awards, Sony World Photography Awards, LensCulture, Life Framer, IPA, MIFA, TIFA, as well as exhibited at the Aperture Summer Open: On Freedom.​ I've also been twice selected as a Critical Mass Top 50 artist by Photolucida and a three-time recipient of PDN's Annual Exposure Award. Additionally, I am an alumnus of the prestigious Eddie Adams Workshop and named the 2017 Dorothy Liskey Wampler Eminent Professor in the School of Art, Design and Art History at James Madison University. 

EDUCATION
James Madison University - Harrisonburg, Virginia
MFA Studio Art 
AUGUST 2005 - JUNE 2009

Virginia Intermont College - Bristol, Virginia
BA Photography 
AUGUST 1997 - JUNE 2001

​AWARDED PROJECTS 
How To Draw a Line, 2020-Ongoing
  • ​Italian Street Photo Festival | Street Series | 1st
  • LensCulture Journey Awards | Series | 2nd 

Reflections Inside the Seoul Metro, 2016-Ongoing
  • LensCulture Street Photography Awards | Street Series | 1st
  • Life Framer | Street Life Award | 1st

This Is Not an Exit (Our Stage Four), 2019-2018
  • Moscow International Foto Awards | Editorial: Essay | 1st
  • International Photo Awards | Deeper Perspective | 2nd 
  • LensCulture Portrait Awards | Finalist

Heartfelt Welcome, 2018
  • Tokyo International Foto Awards | Editorial: Political | 1st 
  • Moscow International Foto Awards | Editorial: Political | 2nd 
  • International Photo Awards | Editorial: General News| 2nd 
  • PDN Eighth Annual Exposure Award
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Losing Face, 2017
  • Magnum Photography Awards | Street Series | 1st 
  • Sony World Photography Awards | National Awards: USA | 1st 
  • Sony World Photography Awards | Open Competition: Motion | Shortlist
  • Sony World Photography Awards | Open Competition: Motion | Commended
  • PDN Seventh Annual Exposure Award
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School Memories: The Loss In Danwon High, 2017
  • Moscow International Foto Awards | Editorial: Political | 1st 
  • Moscow International Foto Awards | Editorial: Essay | 2nd 
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Wrestling in the Streets of Seoul, 2016
  • Tokyo International Foto Awards | Events: Sports | 2nd
  • Tokyo International Foto Awards | Editorial: Sports | 3rd  ​
  • PDN Sixth Annual Exposure Award
HONORS
2021
Received Life Framer's Street Life Award, 1st place, judged by Bruce Gilden

2018

Accepted into the prestigious Eddie Adams Workshop XXXI and received an Eddie Adams Awards.

2018 - 2017
Named a Critical Mass Top 50 artist by Photolucida two years in a row.
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2018 - 2016
Featured in PDN Emerging Photographer Magazine and received PDN’s Annual Exposure Award consecutively for three years. 

2017 
​Represent the USA as a first prize National Award winner by the Sony World Photography Awards.

2017 
​Honored as a Dorothy Liskey Wampler Eminent Professor from James Madison University for my work with families affected by the Sewol Ferry Tragedy in South Korea. 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2020 - Losing Face, McGlothin Center Art Gallery, Emory & Henry College, VA

2018 - GYOPO, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, NY

2017 - School Memories: The Loss In Danwon High, New Image Gallery, James Madison University, VA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 - LensCulture NewYork2022, Caelum Gallery, NY

2021 - ​Storytellers, 
Zoom Photo Festival, Saguenay, CA

2020 & 2019 - Open Walls Arles, Galerie Huit Arles, FR

2018 - A Contemporary Reference of the Human Condition,  Edition ONE Gallery, NM

2018 - Sensation Photography: Between or Border, Photoville, NY

2017 - On Freedom: Aperture Summer Open,  Aperture Foundation, NY

2017 - Magnum Photography Awards Exhibition, The Photographers Gallery, UK
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2017 - Sony World Photography Awards Exhibition, Somerset House, UK

2017 - IPA Annual Best of Show,  Lucie Foundation, NY