Renrut - Krista Kang Turner

Photography – Phoenix

Korean American Adoptee, born in Junju South Korea, grew up in Phoenix Arizona but ultimately raised my personal consciousness in Southern and Northern California to attend OTIS College of Art and Design by studying illustration and Graphic Design. With strengths in visual storytelling and a passion for human rights and fashion, she strives to highlight untold stories of counter cultures and unifying people together through our similarities of pain, passion and the ideas that bring us peace. As a freelance photographer and Korean American Adoptee, much of my work is based on self-identity and philosophy, as I come to understand how wonderful and intricate the human mind works. I see myself as a multidisciplinary artist, and truth researcher, where the majority of my work is rooted in healing and inclusive social change—through visual images based in both my fantasy world and as a documentarian street photographer. my purpose is to create potent and inspiring medicine — projects, initiatives, works, spaces, movements— to help elevate the way we exist as humans; I am fascinated with individuals who are committed to growing in their own truths, regardless of the many wrenches that life throws on your path. I believe that success and joy are found in personal self-reflection through the concepts of accountability, vulnerability, and self-reliance.