What is your artistic background or training?

  I have influenced by lots of street photographers, painters, and artists like Andre Kertesz, Josep Koudelka, Vivian Mier, Henri Cartier Bresson, Elliott Erwitt, Jacque Henri Lartigue from most of black and white photography, Saul Leiter, Franco Pontana, Ernst Hass from color photography, and Monet, Vincent Van Gogh, Mark Rothko, and Bernard Buffet from color and their visions. And there are so many artists in the world. I keep trying to learn from them.

How did you first become interested in photography/art?

  At first, I just wanted to express something which I don't know what it is. I kept trying to find out something. And then I realized that I just interested in my reality. At that point, the photography was suitable for it. I wanted to leave the time which I look at. It could be my memory, feelings, and the real thing. 

Where are you based, and how does your environment influence your work?

  Though I live in Seoul, my work isn’t confined to a physical place. I have traveled widely and watched the pictures from lots of artists who lived in lots of countries. I find that my creative foundation stems more from the unconscious space that exists beyond borders. 

What themes or questions are you drawn to in your work?

  Most of my work comes from spontaneity. I usually go out with my camera and focus on the backgrounds I encounter. Then I select certain moments that interest me and capture them back at home. I think these are spontaneous and unconscious processes. 

  Sometimes, when I take a shot, I feel loneliness, solitude, anxiety, something deep within the situation. At other times, I feel the desire to live, to surface through the moment, to long for something. I just leave them in my camera.