This photobook is a visual meditation on the idea that comfort — not correction — can be its own form of resilience. Drawing from personal film photography captured in Korea, When Life Gives You Lemons, Find Warmth in Familiar Arms explores the quiet power of seeking refuge in family, home, and memory. Rather than subscribing to the familiar narrative of “making lemonade” from life’s hardships, this book suggests another way: leaning into love. In moments of uncertainty or emotional weight, healing can come not from fixing, but from being held, heard, and home.

Each image becomes a soft echo of belonging. Through the softness of film and a nostalgic layout inspired by vintage family albums, the book preserves fragments of everyday life back home in Korea that hold emotional resonance — the gentle, familiar details that cradle us when the world feels unkind. This publication project reframes resilience as rest, connection, and return—a reminder that strength can be quiet, and that sometimes, the most powerful thing we can do is simply go back to where we feel most loved.