To give you a brief description of the photographer's background, EunKwang Light Park was born in Busan and raised in Seoul, Korea, Eun Kwang is a fine art photographer currently based in New York City. He started pursuing photography when he was in middle school, and graduated Sang Myung University, Korea in 2006.He moved to New York in 2008, and currently studying at Parsons the New School for Design for MFA. Through his most recent project ‘Beyond The Light', he focuses on human desire by uncovering numerous illusions through light.
Obscurity, fear, and desire.. are the words that can properly describe the impressions I got from his pictures when I first saw them. In his pictures are there darkness and a light.
What does this mean? EunKwang Park explains that this reflects the dynamic of human desire. Because of the brightness of the light, its source is never revealed, not is what creates it or what exists there. The very moment when the light shines so brightly onto something (revealing everything it touches on), ironically, it hides everything on the opposite end of light. In my view, darkness and light represent the same thing; existence. They are just in a different element. They cannot exist without each other. They are of no value without each other's presence. Darkness is a blessing because it's a time for silence and self-reflection. Light is a miracle because it's a source for creation and hope. EunKwang assumes that human desire begins from something unknown and somewhere unreachable. Just like the dark end of the light.
For those of you who want to check this out,
Location: 38-65 12th St, Long Island city, NY 11101 bcs Gallery
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| Photograph by EunKwang Park |
5 comments:
There's something eerie yet enchanting about his photos. There's usually that sign of hope from a ray of light. Though, I can't help feeling there could be something unpleasant once the scene is exposed. I guess that's part of the mystery/life. It's all about the draw, the delivery, and dealing with the results.
YeahI see a feeling of sorrow or a sense of nostalgia in his pictures, rather than a sigh of hopes and dreams..
I like these photos! I'll go there. Thx for good info.
The exhibition seems very interesting in that the artist picked up 'light' as the subject of his work, the art of light.
hope to have a chance to go there...
I really like the impressions you describe of his works and the concepts of the relation between light and dark. It brought deep new depth to theses photos with the amount of ideas it conveys to me to ponder on the codependent existence of light and darkness. To me I see hope exists in the darkest of places. And yet light loses it's brilliance without ever having shadows to create.
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