About

Hector Kim is an award-winning, published visual artist whose work have been shown and televised globally.

Born and raised in Seoul, South Korea, Hector Kim moved to the U.S. as a teenager. Along with his first car, a 35mm Asahi-Pentax, which Kim’s father had used for forensic and travel photography, was passed down to the young Kim. The three soon became best friends and traveled across North America, and it eventually shaped the later years of Kim’s life as a nomad artist.

Kim enjoyed his successful career in California as a fillmmaker / dot-com-producer. Kim founded Saram, Inc. in the state of California and created promotional films and online contents for numerous fortune 500 corporate clients including Samsung, Canon, and NBC. In addition, Kim filmed and/or photographed many celebrities in the entertainment industry including the Dustin Homan family, Don Henley of the Eagles, and the Katzenberg family of Dream Works.

Kim’s passion for learning has taken him to many places around the world. After getting his B.A. in cinema from Columbia College Hollywood, Kim moved on to Europe. He read postgraduate level film theories at the University of Nottingham, U.K. and was awarded an International M.A. / M.S. degree with distinction in Asian Studies by Lund University, Sweden. Kim now teaches English language and cinema at a university in South Korea and often travels internationally for photography work.

Kim uses both analog and digital photography equipment. For projects that involve larger canvas prints, he mainly uses digital medium format camera gear including Phase One.

Marco Polo says in his epilogue of life, “I haven’t told the half of what I’d seen.” Kim wishes to do the same for himself and share such spirit with fellow pilgrims of life like you.