Welcome back to another instalment of For Your Viewing Pleasure, where we take time out of the week to curate a set of photos from the K-pop landscape.

Though it is hard to remember sometimes, photos capture a story. Image teasers for K-pop comebacks usually remind us of this fact, as they lend a poignant hand to their concepts. Joy is frozen in time as a ballerina music box for the stunningly creative Red Velvet comeback, while Moonbin‘s photo plays with light and texture to express a mysterious and maybe foreboding feeling ahead of the Astro unit Moonbin & Sanha‘s Refuge album. Costumes—simple and elaborate—makeup, lighting, framing, and expression all contribute to the unique story told through the image.

  • Moonbin (Astro) | Fantagio
  • Jung Chae-yeon | WWD
  • Joy (Red Velvet) | SM Entertainment
  • Soyeon ((G)I-dle) | Cube Entertainment
  • Haechan (NCT) | SM Entertainment
  • Jeon Ji-hyun | Your Vibes Magazine
  • Yuna Kim | Dazed
  • Bang Yongguk | Esquire
  • Lee Do-hyun | Harper’s Bazzar

(Images via Harper’s Bazaar, Esquire, Dazed, Your Vibes Magazine, SM Entertainment, Cube Entertainment, WWD, Fantagio, Noblesse Men)