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were never married. 2007-2008

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“The Were Never Married project is a retrospective look on that relationship and the time I spent living in Korea. It’s quite personal and intimate, diaristic in a way. The focus of it is not just on the relationship, but also on my relationship with the city, as an outsider. It was the beginning of 2006 and I was in Perth and didn’t really know what I was doing. My friend who was living there said it was great and that I should come and live over there, so I took his advice. I didn’t move to Seoul originally, I moved to Busan, which is another big city at the other end of the country. It’s only a three-hour train ride to Seoul so I’d go up every couple of weekends. I also met this girl, Hasisi, not too long after I moved there, so I used to go up and visit her too.

Eventually I moved, and got another job. I was teaching English, obviously, it’s kind of the only way to make any money in Korea. Because of the girl, I guess, I ended up staying longer than I would have, most people stay a year or two, I stayed for nearly three, and I came back to Perth at the beginning of this year.” – by Australian photographer JACKSON EATON

JACKSON EATON‘s work is rich, intimate, fragile, comical and passionate. It is a story of love.