My name is YeonHho Ahn. I am a fashion photographer based in Seoul (Korea).

I started taking photographs for the first time when I was seventeen and I wanted to become a photographer since then. Once I graduated from college, I worked as an assistant for a photographer for several years. After I gained enough experience, I started working as a fashion photographer by myself.

I learned about photography when I was seventeen and I also majored in photography in college. I enjoyed everything about it. It was all new and fun to me.

When I was a junior in college, I had options to choose between advertisement, fine arts, documentary, and film. I chose advertisement and I was especially into portraits. I usually get inspired by other photographs, pictures, spaces and so on, mostly in terms of colours.

I find each person's eyes very attractive. People can look similar but their eyes are all different. I think that is really powerful.

If you are referring to my series work called Room, they were not that serious works. I did not really plan to take those photos. I just randomly thought about people being alone in their own room and doing unnecessary things like singing, dancing, or screaming. I placed a subject to be in a most comfortable space but in an unusual situation and that was the start of this series work. The only difference between these private works and the fashion ones would be that the former is taken just by myself and the latter created by more people than just me.

I cannot say that this is a hundred percent my style. I am still developing my own style. There are photos that satisfy me, and others that do not but that satisfy others.

I don’t think which way is more intimate. I just take photos of what I want to whenever I want to. Fashion photography is a bit more limited. That is the only difference, I would say. Also, the subject is different, so it must feel different because of that. I don't really want to separate them into different fields.
Regarding the message, this is a question I’m a bit tired of. I just want to say 'think yourself'. I just did it because I had fun working on it with my friends. Is there a reason why you want to be happy or why you want to fly? This work was not to show my identity to the world or anything serious like that.

Clients or editors contact me with certain idea and go with it if they are sure about it, or sometimes I add my own ideas during the meeting. After the photoshoot, I send a few selects to the magazine for the first round and then the editor picks the final selects for retouching and extra works.

I like those things. If someone asks me why I like photography, one of the reasons is because I can represent what I imagine in the most realistic way as if it is real. One of my goals is to go to outer space – I really want to go and I believe I will.

Nothing special. I just want to take a perfect photo without any doubt. I believe that it will naturally happen once I get older and become more mature, so I do not want to rush into anything as long as I keep developing myself.

I do have new projects, but I have not started them yet.