MdN international Vol. 5
- Hyejung Lee
- 2023년 8월 6일
- 2분 분량
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A remarkable photo journalist whose “works take you on a journey that leads you through sadness, and at times even despair, but eventually back to hope,” says Abby Robinson, Photographer, in the introduction to Kim’s works, Abby goes on to says, “The pictures, seemingly so site specific, manage to transcend geographic boundaries. While intimately bound to the particular, they strive for the universal. They are a warning and a salute, a message and a meditation for all of us.” Kim’s specialized in fine art photography at the School of Visual Arts in New York, having completed both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees.
As Abby Robinson continues in the introduction “Kim was trained as an architect and this has much to do with the way he builds a picture. First he lays what looks like a simple foundation only to design a structure of meticulous delicacy upon it. So he turns the architectonics of his photographs into a meditation. To understand his visual language, you have to think in realities.” Because of his great love for nature and imagery, Charles H.Traub, chairman, M.F.A. Photography of the School of Visual Arts, New York says, “As we look at Woo Young Kim’s creative images, I am aware of a blend of an Eastern sensibility, a kind of anguish that is nevertheless lyrical-fleeting, blended with the strategies and currents of a post-modem Western artist who is self-conscious in his deliberate reconstruction of the imagery he has conceived.” This sums up the man - an artist and a sensitive fine art photographer of nature.
One of his two first solo exhibitions was at his home base in Seoul, Korea in 1989 and the second at the Visual Arts Gallery in New York in 1991.
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