Biografia
The Diamond Sutra, Keum Kam Kyung, is a Buddhist book that records the conversation between Buddha and Subori, the brightest disciple of him to deeply grasp his ideology.
The particularity of this book is that Buddha's ideology is unfolded in an interesting manner -by questioning and answering between the two individuals- and the zeal amongst a number of scholars to construe the meaning of this classic of Buddhism has been continuing from thousands of years ago and even to present time.
What was especially appealing to me was that the phrase “如是我聞 (pronounced in Korean as Yeo-Shi-A-Moon)” which means "I heard it this way," is repetitively used throughout the book and, in my opinion, this simple phrase emphasizes that each dialogue is simply passed on as it lays, without personal opinions or judgement and to look at the converstaion in an objective manner from a point of view with a sense of hightened attitude of humble learning.
My pictures are the reproductions based on the phrase "如是我聞" by reshaping the images in reality.
To shelf my arts in a category, it is close to the documentary pictures, nevertheless the word of documentary pictures which is more relevant with the general conception of the society, as a means of accusation and seriousness, would be difficult to find in my pictures. I focus on the human itself.
Regardless of religion, social status, economic theory, and doctrines, I gently hold the various human lives as pictures in an altruistic manner.
My feelings toward comprehensive humanity, as long as the extent of my memories and the consistent emotions in my pictures, are that of "warm recollections and memoirs" to humans.
Amongst many records about humanity, I carefully choose the moments of my childhood experience and those motives that perpetuate the moments of my photoshooting.
The way I approach toward photography is generally to travel exotic countries and to recognize the new world in a perspective of a new sensitivity and with a foreigner's sharp and insightful eyes.
