Light Sensitive

This series of photographs 'Light Sensitive (2018)' consists of photographs that I took moving between the UK where I was studying at that time and my country South Korea. In this work, I explored the finite life and fragility of human's body by being inspired by my grandmother, who is nearing death. Early in this work, I had many questions about different belief surrounding death and dying by reflecting on the material and transcendental qualities of our inevitable mortality. It was the first time that I consider death seriously as a part of my life. Then I felt like I was looking around using time slower than before, and sometimes I felt the connection with my grandmother, who is lying on the bed all day across time and space. It led me to press the shutter. Death has always been in our lives, and I needed to accept loss and longing as fate. Recognising the fact that we are helpless in the face of finite time makes my inside strong rather than leave me in emptiness and gives me the purest insight into my life itself after all.