KIM Tae-kyeong, born in 1973, is a cinematographer who specializes in handheld camera movements to capture the finest details of emotion on an actor’s face. After studying film and theatre at Hanyang University and later cinematography at the Korean Academy of Film Arts, KIM honed his skills working in the camera department of <Wanee And Junah> (2001), SONG Il-gon’s <Flower Island> (2001) and IM Sang-soo’s <A Good Lawyer’s Wife> (2003). He made his d...More

KIM Tae-kyeong, born in 1973, is a cinematographer who specializes in handheld camera movements to capture the finest details of emotion on an actor’s face. After studying film and theatre at Hanyang University and later cinematography at the Korean Academy of Film Arts, KIM honed his skills working in the camera department of <Wanee And Junah> (2001), SONG Il-gon’s <Flower Island> (2001) and IM Sang-soo’s <A Good Lawyer’s Wife> (2003). He made his debut as a cinematographer with the horror flick <The Red Shoes> (2005), but had to wait until 2008 to be offered other opportunities and see his career take off. That year, he made his name for the CG-enhanced handheld shots he deployed in <Modern Boy>, a melodrama set in 1930s Seoul during the Japanese colonization. In <Midnight F.M.> (2010), his camerawork was responsible for creating tension and a feeling of urgency. He gained wide recognition in 2012 for his work on the romance film <Eungyo> (2012), for which he had to make do with limited location and other constraints. Among them, the prosthetic makeup worn by PARK Hae-il to appear older prevented him from using bright lighting as it would have created unwanted reflection on the silicon. He also took inspiration from Mona KUHN’s photographs and calibrated the actors’ skin tones to attenuate the eroticism of film. All his efforts were not in vain, as he won Best Cinematography at the Blue Dragon Film Awards. He won similar honors again three years later for the historical drama film <The Throne> (2014), set in the Joseon Dynasty.Less