Hello, I’m Melmel Chung, a photographer. I take pictures with my colleagues in Seoul. I usually take pictures of still spaces and figures and sometimes still lifes. We use easy-to-remember nicknames that represent our nationality, gender, and dispositions. Travel and photography are my oldest hobbies. In the past, I worked as a web designer and recorded each day through blogs and SNS, the months, the days, and sometimes the occasional special week I spent traveling through photos. There were many amateur photographers, but with a little bit of luck, I was able to turns my hobby into a career

Creating an image with different clients is obviously difficult and rewarding. My studio, Texture on Texture, works with brands and media of different sizes and orientations such as AMOREPACIFIC, SM, COS, AESOP, Ride, Hyundai Card, Wework, UrbanLike Magazine, and PostSeoul Magazine.

We also run Texture Shop, a service that collects and sells materials other than client projects. Sometimes these two activities combine to open an exhibition / popup.

My favorite thing is to take pictures that I want to take without someone's request. When I introduce myself, I often say "I want to contain natural things, beautiful things, and sometimes meaningless things." These three are the things that I always want to capture with my camera. My first book, Letour: Sicily, is a collection of pictures that I enjoyed the most. I picked up a small camera and took pictures of my loved ones here and there in a strange city.

Lifting the camera. At first, it was a small hobby, but the accumulation of pictures led me to meet many people. I’ve come to realise that a ' job you love' actually has great power. I wanted to create Class101 lessons to share my habits, my job, maybe a life-changing picture, and the joy of touching and spreading happiness through photos.