UNIT 1 - RELATIONSHIPS (INSPIRATION 03)

After viewing the result of my last shoot I decided to move on another artist. I feel like Franck Bohbot does not have the characteristics that I'm looking for. For this reason I moved on a very interesting artist which I think could give a very magical and misterious look to my picture. Here's a research that I did about him. Kyungwoo Chun was born (1969) in Seoul. After his first study of Photography in Korea (1992) he moved to Germany, where he studied and started to work on his art projects in Europe. He has become known for his poetically blurred photographic portraits in a very unconventional way of dealing with time and space. His pictures give to the subject a sense of lightness and often give a surreal touch to the images. As I'm still working on levitation photography I'm looking for different techniques that could be combined to the ones that I've already used to emphasize the effect that I'm trying to recreate. My two best edit both have a magical atmosphere that could be completed by other details such as this long-exposure technique. Chun is the first of my inspirational artists who uses an analog camera. This fact is not simply a technical detail but characterise all his pictures, as seen in his work colours often variate depending on the film that he used. 

A day in Seoul 3, Kyungwoo Chun, 2003

Family Portrait 110, Kyungwoo Chun, 2003
His chromatic spectre stretches from black and white to super saturated pictures passing through sepia and blue monochrome. Due to the very long exposures the photos are often taken in indoor locations and usually have a neutral monochromatic background.

 Nine editors 9, Kyungwoo Chun, 2014

VERSUS 2, Kyungwoo Chun, 2007

Believing is seeing 11, Kyungwoo Chun, 2007

In general Chun takes more gloomy and introspective pictures while Bohbot and Woon shoot a more peaceful and fairy-tale like reality. I would like to explore how would this two different styles relate and if a good final piece could be created by this bond between two opposite way of seeing the world through a camera.

1592 1, Kyungwoo Chun, 2007

reMEMBERed 5, Kyungwoo Chun, 2002

Simultan 10, Kyungwoo Chun, 2010