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전국노래자랑, 대구 달성, 2016, 152X195cm, Achival Pigment Print

You have dedicated your efforts mostly to portrait photography
in your career, starting from <Jjak-pae> to<National Singing Con- Portrait photographs show people’s relationship with society.
test> and <Refugees>. I am curious to know the reason you are Where do you focus?
interested in people and the story of people’s life through portrait. I don’t think about any specific “message” when I work. In general,
I think it is like a boy’s curiosity. Since I was young, I was always curi- photographers take interest in social issues such the “candlelight
ous about people. Such curiosity ultimately developed into interest protest” when they try to develop a concept for their work. How-
in humanity, and became the main subject of my photography. I ever, in my case, I am more interested in exploring human psychol-
am still working on it because curisoity in men is an open-ended ogy revealed in the undercurrent of social phenomenon that are
question. By the way, the portrait photography is the story about hidden. One can look at the <National Singing Contest> and see
people in photographs, but it is also a story about myself. I reflect variety of emotions. Also, in the <Last Wish>, one can experience
my own life through them, and this is why I am attracted to portrait both the virtual world and the real world. There are many ways to
photography. experience and appreciate my work.

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