Category Archives: Korea
Dayoung Kang
TOP TO BOTTOM, from (“swallow“)
© Dayoung Kang, 2009
Dayoung Kang’s swallow series depicts the anonymity and lack of identity in modern society. Faceless characters inhabit the images; unable to communicate with others in the society. The hidden wounds we carry haunt us, yet we continue to swallow the pain. Visit her website here.
This will be the [...]
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Siyeon Park
Siyeon Park’s series reminds one of August Sander’s portraits of the People of the 20th Century, a typological look at school-going girls in Korea. The girls bear an eerie resemblance to each other, blank stares fixated on their faces.
Su-yeon Choi: Who cries all the time over everything
Ji-in Kim: Who hates to wear school uniform
Na-hee un: [...]
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Kwon Ji hyun
Kwon Ji hyun: I’m so sorry. I’m just, just photographing in the messed up world.
Judith Gehring: My sentence was paid for by an innocent dove, whose beauty was distorted so that I would enjoy freedom!
Damian Pieniazek: I am too ambitious, that’s why I don’t have enough time for my family.
TOP TO BOTTOM, from (“The Guilty“)
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Noriko Ishihara
Noriko Ishihara’s works explores the inner human condition. Within our cages lie a multitude of concerns and fears – things that frighten us. The series questions the individual’s inner being and represents them in a whole new light.
TOP TO BOTTOM, from (“?? (silent and loneliness) world“)
© Noriko Ishihara, 2009
Highly abstruse, the images’ visual references and [...]
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Kim Ji-Hye
Kim Ji-Hye approached a subject that affects roughly half the human population – the menstrual cycle. She approached individuals who shared with her their greatest concerns/peeves about it and transformed these stories into caricatures.
TOP TO BOTTOM, from (“Menstrual Cycle“)
© Kim Ji-Hye, 2009
For an act as natural as breathing, the topic remains mostly shrouded in mystery [...]
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Serry Park
Serry Park’s series, XO pale white, delineates the meaning of objects in our daily lives. A minimalist piece of work, the simplicity of the images hides the amount of effort placed in creating the set.
TOP TO BOTTOM, from (“XO pale white“)
© Serry Park, 2009
From her statement:
I cannot open the window, nor watch the clock in [...]
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Showcase: Chung-Ang University
Walter Bergmoser, a professor at Chung-Ang University’s Department of Photography, approached me sometime last month to showcase his students’ work which was shown at Bratislava’s Month of Photography. I will be putting up some of the works along the course of this week. One of his students, Jihyun Kwon, won the Best Portfolio award, and [...]
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Lee Jeong-lok
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© Lee Jeong-lok, 2007
Painstakingly created, Lee Jeong-lok’s Mythical Landscape series turned ordinary scenes into works that intrigue and wonder. Growing up in the countryside, the artist has an intricate bond with nature and it is reflected in his works. This series is a visualization of the physical and spiritual imaginations [...]
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Young Kim – Suitman
Quirky, very quirky. I spotted Young Kim’s book at the bookshop a while back and chuckled quietly to my amusement.
TOP TO BOTTOM, from (“Suitman“)
© Young Kim
Photographed in the vein of costumed self-portraits like Tseng Kwong Chi, these images of Young Kim in a suit speak about the alienation of the modern globetrotting man. His work [...]
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Gloria Chung