What is photography?
Photography is an art of light that requires imagination, which is created by and completed by light. It is also the work of capturing the moment using light and leaving it as eternity.
Since photography is a war against light and the process of controlling light, the photograph varies a lot depending on the degree to which the physical properties of light are utilized.
The light, the source of photography, is the result of the sun's love. An image is created when that light is put into the lens of the camera through the pain of parting with the sun. I create abstract images using the characteristics of light by touching the heart of the camera with my persevering eyes and loving fingertips.
Creativity starts with breaking the existing frame. Photography is an art to express very realistically, but the photos I create abstract by omitting a lot of the details of the trees that are being photographed.
Abstraction starts with omitting detailed realistic expressions. Subtraction is another addition and omission is another creation. In the omitted figure, the boundaries are blurred and the figure becomes unclear, but it is created in a different form with a deeper meaning.
The shedding of light and the ambiguity of color appearing in my works are another language and aesthetic message that expresses an abstracted image.
I abstract the image by inducing the flow of light and the mixing of color with changes in diffraction, refraction, and reflection inside the camera. And the intention of my work is to create so that love, patience, peace, and dreams are contained in the image.
2021 Yoon Sang-min