Portrait of a North Korean Defector for Liberation
A portrait assignment by french newspaper Liberation of a North Korean defector: Kim Il-hyuk. He defected in 2023 and tells the story of North Korea during Covid 19 - a rare view inside the closed up state, full story here in French.
Tim Franco is available for portrait assignment in South Korea and the rest of Asia.
North Korean Military Defectors for the WSJ
When North Korea decided to send its troops to Ukraine to help the Russian Army, the Wall Street Journal interviewed two ex-military defectors about this strategy. I was assigned to portray them. The full story written by Dasl Yoon is available here. Below are two of my portraits.
Tim Franco is a portrait photographer & commercial photographer based between South Korea, China & France.
Floods in Seoul | Heavy Rain in South Korea
The rain has been insane for the past month in South Korea. While there is serious damage and casualties in the South, the capital has only seen his main river, the Han river, raised by more than 8 meters and the different parks and roads on its banks have been completely flooded. I went down and documented a few of those strange new landscapes formed by this downpour.
Tim Franco is available for editorial and commercial photography assignment in Seoul and South Korea.
Chongqing | Neue Burcher Beitung
Front Page of the Neue Burcher Beitung, one of the oldest european Newspaper with my series Vertical Communism about Chongqing China
