In cooperation with Korean photographer Kyungwoo Chun, BredaPhoto displays the newest generation of talented photographers from Korea. Chun lives and works in Seoul (Korea) and Bremen (Germany). As a lecturer, he works at the College of Arts of the Chung-Ang University in Seoul. For BredaPhoto Chun selected his best students. The works of these photographers are exhibited for the first time outside Korea.
Participating photographers: Kyung-Eun Han, Jongwoo Hong, Hyo Sup Jung, Jihyun Jung, Taejoong Kim, Gihun Noh and Young Jin Yoo.
Almost all the land we see is someone’s property. Or, people claim to own it. “People believe that they can own these places physically or emotionally”, Young Jin Yoo (Korea, 1988) says, “but these places are shared end-lessly”. What we see, seems not to exist in this world. ‘Nowhere’, Yoo coins this place.
Taejoong Kim (Korea, 1986) sees an important difference between the words ‘solitude’ and ‘loneliness’. Both refer to someone’s relationship towards other people. However, people choose to be alone, but are lonely against their own will.
The women on the pictures of Kyung-Eun Han (Korea, 1975) all undergo chemotherapy for types of cancer. ‘Mukjeong’, the title of the series, refers to the hospital in which the patients receive their treatment. It is also the Korean word for ‘pit’. Han recognizes the women she portrayed. She says: “to keep the well from drying, we have to look deep into our inner self and be among other people”.
Hyo Sup Jung (Korea, 1988) portrays human bodies. According to Jung, not facial expressions or words, but our bodies tell who we really are. Whereas a poker-face can easily hide ones emotions, the body nevertheless produces the gestures and postures together constituting ones character.
On construction sites, Jihyun Jung (Korea, 1983) recognizes the crossing point between the destruction of nature on the one hand, and the origin of places where people live on the other.
In the German city of Weimar, Jongwoo Hong (Korea, 1988) sought for trees. Trees within an urban environment, well-ordered and good-looking. According to Hong, the shapes of plants tell much about the society in which they are found. He says: people prefer to see other people who are highly educated, good-looking and behaving properly”.
New Korean Photography
September 28 – October 21, 2012
House of Visual Culture
Reigerstraat 16
4811 XB Breda
The Netherlands
