Hi there!
I'm Hun Jae (he/him).

I am a photographer living in Pittsburgh, PA, though I grew up in Seoul, South Korea. I am in love with the weather here, especially when it challenges me to go out to capture a scene!

The Story

It all started with taking photos of my friends in school.

I brought my dad's Sony digital camera to school to take funny staged photos with my friends, and I found myself enjoying the process of capturing moments. This sparked a passion for photography that has stayed with me ever since.
Since then, I have always enjoyed capturing dynamic angles and lightings to re-enact the scenes from the original source material, like a video game character or a movie scene.
I am a self-taught photographer -- I have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, which you'd wonder what that has to do with photography -- I find using both sides of my brain truly enjoyable, through the technicality side of photography & letting myself get creative from there! I made this website from scratch, running on an on-premise server, and it is now live on the internet.

Nowadays, I primarily photograph Cosplay, and if you’re confused about what that means, here’s a quick explanation: people all over the country (and the world) make or purchase costumes of their favorite characters from movies, books, cartoons, television shows, and sometimes even from their own heads and hire me to photograph them. Cosplayers put so much work into their makeup, costumes, props, and wigs that they understandably want photographic evidence of it!

If you're not into cosplay, don't worry -- I photograph all manner of other subjects as well! I love conceptual portraits, fashion, product photography, and many more. If you're looking for a type of photography that you don't see on my website, please feel free to message me anyway!

I am mostly active and reachable on Instagram @iroun.photos. Feel free to drop me a line, let's go on an adventure!

Thanks for stopping by!

Published Works