ΠΛΑΝΗΤΕΣ, PLANETES 001 120cmx160cm Archival Pigment Print 2017
ΠΛΑΝΗΤΕΣ, PLANETES 018 152cmx120cm Archival Pigment Print 2018
ΠΛΑΝΗΤΕΣ, PLANETES 030 120cmx160cm Archival Pigment Print 2019
ΠΛΑΝΗΤΕΣ, PLANETES project,AU-007 67cmx50cm Archival Pigment Print 2018
ΠΛΑΝΗΤΕΣ, PLANETES project,AU-005 99cmx144cm Archival Pigment Print 2018
ΠΛΑΝΗΤΕΣ, PLANETES project,AU 007-2 84cmx112cm Archival Pigment Print 2018
ΠΛΑΝΗΤΕΣ, PLANETES project,Seoul 001 67cmx50cm Archival Pigment Print 2019
ΠΛΑΝΗΤΕΣ, PLANETES
My current project < ΠΛΑΝΗΤΕΣ, PLANETES 2017-> began with one blurred photograph that I noticed by chance while I was shooting photos of the stars at The Site of Waterworks Bureau, which is a war site in Cheorwon. In order to capture a star precisely with a camera, you need an apparatus called an equatorial mount. A camera on an equatorial mount tracks the rotational axis of the star, which causes everything on the ground to be moved, and thus blurred in a photograph, on account of the star's movement along the axis. Upon looking at the photograph, I could sense the tension and temporality of the blurred subject.The experience immediately brought back the feelings of tension and astonishment that I got from Robert Capa's from the time when I first started photography, and it has inspired me to travel across South Korea and take photographs of war sites, retired weapons, and the neighbourhoods around them under the night sky, making them appear to be trembling against the constant stars. As a still image of the stars has, in fact, been turned into one moment by multiple points in time, I wanted to capture the passing of time in human civilization as embodied in these shaken traces of history.