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Jul. 7th, 2016 06:54 pmName: Wen Junhui
Nickname: Jun
Band/Solo: Seventeen
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Aim: #black.white.snap
Twitter: @sepiavisions
Age: 19
Year: Sophomore
Fraternity: DTD
Major: Photography
Clubs/Sports: Photography
Biography:
Take two socialites in Shenzhen, China, add a whirlwind romance, a seven hundred guest wedding, and five years of convincing the bride to risk her figure for a child, and Wen Junhui was born. He wasn’t raised with a silver spoon in his mouth, though perhaps a bronze one. Either way it was enough to ensure his childhood was riddled with tantrums and an inability to share that gave him away as an only child that was not for want of money. His relationship with his parents wasn’t as bad as some others; he was never raised by a nanny, though most of his weekends were spent with a babysitter. What they did teach him however was face value and beauty, and when he started going to some of their social evenings he believed that all adults were about was drinking, small talk, and comments behind one’s back.
The change came when he was twelve and his grandfather died, filling their apartment with his belongings to sort through. It was in one of these boxes that Junhui found the man’s SLR camera and for some reason that he’s still not sure of today he took it with him and started taking snapshots. When he got them developed they were all either underexposed or overexposed – after all he had no idea about things such as aperture. And yet there was something there that Junhui found and wanted to explore more. He requested that his parents buy him his own digital SLR and of course, they complied. He learnt the basics from the internet and he learnt about life from the pictures he took. On the surface a photograph was still face value, and yet the funny thing about art is the way it makes one feel. It was this that taught Junhui there was more to life and being an adult than what he had seen.
The pathway to Korea was first opened in middle school when a Korean exchange student entered his school. They bonded in photography class and became friends, even if the boy’s Mandarin was questionable and the first part of his stay was spent using more hand gestures than words. Slowly a language exchange started happening between the two of them and by the end of the year he was speaking Korean at a beginner’s level. When Junhui entered high school and they parted ways he kept up with the language lessons, them and photography being the major constants in his life. His weekends were split between homework, taking photos, and attending the social events of his parents.
When he finished school his parents didn’t assume he would run off to university. The family’s money was old, maintained mostly through stocks and property, and so he wasn’t expected to know anything aside from those two sectors. But over the years Junhui had changed, he had come far closer to having his feet on the ground. Besides, there was nothing to lose from chasing after his passion. And so he applied for university in Korea, being accepted to Yonsei and packing his bags with a promise to his parents to keep in contact and return home for a visit during every break.
When he arrived as a freshman at the university he was met with a choice of fraternities that people urged him to rush. Those that knew him expected him to head for KAO due to his monetary background, even if he wasn’t all that competitive. However he decided that while in Korea he wasn’t going to be the son of the Wen family, but simply a photography major and instead he pledged to DTD, feeling much more at home with their way of life.
Despite his choice to just be the photographer Jun, there is still enough of his behaviour derived from his background to mark him as someone from money. He still suffers from only child syndrome and has a habit of reaching for what he wants first, and thinking of others later. It could be said to be his biggest flaw, along with the fact that he is not afraid to stand up and put someone in their place if he doesn’t like what he sees or hears. But these aren’t sides of him that are seen regularly. For the most part he is a friendly and rather happy boy, who has an eye for photographic subjects and if he doesn’t have his DLSR with him, he is sure to have his phone with its state of the art camera ready to snap any shot he sees.
Nickname: Jun
Band/Solo: Seventeen
Journal:
shotofjun Aim: #black.white.snap
Twitter: @sepiavisions
Age: 19
Year: Sophomore
Fraternity: DTD
Major: Photography
Clubs/Sports: Photography
Biography:
Take two socialites in Shenzhen, China, add a whirlwind romance, a seven hundred guest wedding, and five years of convincing the bride to risk her figure for a child, and Wen Junhui was born. He wasn’t raised with a silver spoon in his mouth, though perhaps a bronze one. Either way it was enough to ensure his childhood was riddled with tantrums and an inability to share that gave him away as an only child that was not for want of money. His relationship with his parents wasn’t as bad as some others; he was never raised by a nanny, though most of his weekends were spent with a babysitter. What they did teach him however was face value and beauty, and when he started going to some of their social evenings he believed that all adults were about was drinking, small talk, and comments behind one’s back.
The change came when he was twelve and his grandfather died, filling their apartment with his belongings to sort through. It was in one of these boxes that Junhui found the man’s SLR camera and for some reason that he’s still not sure of today he took it with him and started taking snapshots. When he got them developed they were all either underexposed or overexposed – after all he had no idea about things such as aperture. And yet there was something there that Junhui found and wanted to explore more. He requested that his parents buy him his own digital SLR and of course, they complied. He learnt the basics from the internet and he learnt about life from the pictures he took. On the surface a photograph was still face value, and yet the funny thing about art is the way it makes one feel. It was this that taught Junhui there was more to life and being an adult than what he had seen.
The pathway to Korea was first opened in middle school when a Korean exchange student entered his school. They bonded in photography class and became friends, even if the boy’s Mandarin was questionable and the first part of his stay was spent using more hand gestures than words. Slowly a language exchange started happening between the two of them and by the end of the year he was speaking Korean at a beginner’s level. When Junhui entered high school and they parted ways he kept up with the language lessons, them and photography being the major constants in his life. His weekends were split between homework, taking photos, and attending the social events of his parents.
When he finished school his parents didn’t assume he would run off to university. The family’s money was old, maintained mostly through stocks and property, and so he wasn’t expected to know anything aside from those two sectors. But over the years Junhui had changed, he had come far closer to having his feet on the ground. Besides, there was nothing to lose from chasing after his passion. And so he applied for university in Korea, being accepted to Yonsei and packing his bags with a promise to his parents to keep in contact and return home for a visit during every break.
When he arrived as a freshman at the university he was met with a choice of fraternities that people urged him to rush. Those that knew him expected him to head for KAO due to his monetary background, even if he wasn’t all that competitive. However he decided that while in Korea he wasn’t going to be the son of the Wen family, but simply a photography major and instead he pledged to DTD, feeling much more at home with their way of life.
Despite his choice to just be the photographer Jun, there is still enough of his behaviour derived from his background to mark him as someone from money. He still suffers from only child syndrome and has a habit of reaching for what he wants first, and thinking of others later. It could be said to be his biggest flaw, along with the fact that he is not afraid to stand up and put someone in their place if he doesn’t like what he sees or hears. But these aren’t sides of him that are seen regularly. For the most part he is a friendly and rather happy boy, who has an eye for photographic subjects and if he doesn’t have his DLSR with him, he is sure to have his phone with its state of the art camera ready to snap any shot he sees.
