Photo

Why this campaign

Koreatown doesn't have a visual archive. There are personal photo albums, event photographer portfolios, Google Street View, and real estate listing photos. But there's no single place where someone can search for images of Koreatown — its streets, murals, businesses, events, people, seasons, changes — and actually use them.

Photo fills that gap. It's a library of 16,000+ community photographs, tagged with AI-powered metadata — location, mood, setting, time of day — and searchable in 12 languages. Find a photo you like and "Find Similar" surfaces visually related images across the archive. Build a collection, share it with a link.

This isn't a stock photo site. It's a community record — visual documentation of what Koreatown looks like right now, maintained by the people who live here.

What we're doing

• Operating Photo — a live visual library at photo.ktown.team with AI-powered tagging, vector similarity search, and 12-language support
• Growing the archive — over 16,000 photos indexed, with ongoing photography capturing community events, street scenes, and daily life
• Enriching metadata — AI vision analysis generates captions, alt text, mood, setting, and tags for every photo
• Protecting rights — copyright, privacy, and terms policies published; consent and attribution built into the workflow

How to participate

• Residents: Browse and search photo.ktown.team — explore Koreatown through 16,000+ photos in any of 12 languages
• Collectors: Build curated sets of photos and share them via short links
• Contributors: Contact Ktown Team to submit community photography
• Everyone: Share photo.ktown.team with anyone interested in Koreatown's visual story