My Biography

I take pictures of scenery or objects. A photo of a scenery captures the time the objects have stayed whereas a photo of a still object captures the inherent-self; they both, though, perform the authenticity of objects, which is what I always try to achieve. Though being the most attractive project, photos of still objects have also required the most attempts and failures before reaching a final product. Light and shadow, which create the presence of an object, often come in as an obstacle in capturing the object’s true-self. Thus, I took a different approach; by purposely deleting the shadow that must be present in a photo, I was able to step forward to the authenticity of the object. As I spent most of the time eliminating the shadow and filling in the blank space, I have decided to choose Korean traditional handmade paper [hanji] for photography. After placing the objects on hanji, I was sure the photo had found its right place, arousing the Korean traditional ink painting ambiance. Hanji is also known as Bekji, of which the wording itself already implies a hundred times of labour is required to achieve a piece of paper. In other words, the paper takes ninety-nine times of work until completion on the one hundredth time. As I have a close look at the photography, I instantly capture a hundred different courses of time as a hundred different thoughts cross my mind. Its authenticity is well smeared on a photo by the object itself, rather than by my personal ego.