My mirror

“Who I am, why I exist in life.” My photography is a mirror of my inner self that I take photos of the things I experience and express my feelings and emotion with colors and characters. I grew up in the countryside of South Korea where few people live and my father was rarely home due to work. So I had a deeper bond between animals and nature than humans. After I moved to Seoul by myself, the more I met and built human relationships, the more I felt affection, longing, and loneliness for humans. In my early 20s, I didn't know my feelings and emotions so I did not know how to express them but as I got to know my feelings through photography, I started expressing my feelings through photography. My first artwork series is "people's back", representing people who want to speak but remain silent due to certain circumstances. I started to draw and make notes of my emotions in daily life. It is not fantasy or imagination, it is my emotions and feelings in real life that I think people can sympathize with as we are human beings. I think it is best to boldly exclude miscellaneous things and simply express the core that I want to show in pictures. So, I am still discovering myself through photography and always interested in human feelings and mainly expressing relationships between people. I want my photography to embody contradictory emotions such as loneliness and warmth.