Shooting what you are passionate about can be an education in itself. Coming from a background with no formal training, Australian Seoul-based fine art and documentary photographer, Dylan Goldby has grown as a photographer by immersing himself in his personal work. “Photography for me started as a way to capture all the things I was seeing when I travelled,” he says. “All of my work has been discovered through trial and error, reading, and meeting other photographers.”
Goldby started taking photography seriously in 2009, shooting for various local magazines. “This gave me a huge variety of subject matter and access to my first clients,” he says. By 2014, Goldby was working full-time as a photographers. Now, his work revolves around capturing things that he is passionate about, while his ‘bread-and-butter sessions’ are working with families and young couples, with the aim of capturing moments of love in a different way. However, it is his personal work where Goldby’s passions start to really shine. “My personal work is about the things that make us all different. Our world is shrinking and we are losing what makes us unique. My goal is to capture that which is unique before the inevitable gentrification.”
Goldby’s work saw him named as runner-up in the Travel category of Australasia’s Top Emerging Photographers in 2017. He’s also had two successful exhibitions; the first to launch his Kickstarter campaign to publish his first book, about the disappearing culture of facial tattoos among the Lai Tu Chin people of Myanmar. For his current project, Tattoos of Asia, Goldby is documenting the last remaining facial tattoos in Asia which will culminate in a book of faces and stories. “After that, I’ll see which way the wind blows. I know I’ll continue to make photographs, but it’s hard to say where or what, at this point.”
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