For Your Viewing Pleasure: The Storyteller

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.

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