Photo by Kaite McTiernan
Grace is a Korean American photojournalist based in Mexico City. She currently works as a photojournalist between Mexico and California.
Grace graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Clothing and Textiles from California State University, Long Beach. She has worked as a costume designer in Orange County, Los Angeles, and New York City. In 2017, she enrolled in the School of Photography at Orange Coast College, where she was awarded the Rick Malmin Memorial Scholarship in 2019. Her prints from the "LA Lights" series, created in 2017, received an Honorable Mention in the black-and-white analog (non-digital) category at the 2019 OC Fair. Additionally, her "Wasted Foods" collection has been exhibited at both the Downtown Santa Ana Art Walk and the Newport Bay Conservancy Climate Solutions Conference. Grace was also featured in the Loosen Art exhibition "Migrants and Shifting Borders" in Rome, Italy. Her work has appeared in TIME, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, and CNN.
She can be found exploring Mexico City one bike ride at a time.