Solitudes of Human Places

Jong Rhee

ISBN 10: 3907236335 / ISBN 13: 9783907236338

Published by Edition Patrick Frey, CH, 2021

About this Item

A special moment in photographing is the short-lived moment just before shutter release when you are unconsciously moved by something. You try to capture that fleeting moment of emotions flowing through you without fully understanding them. These pictures try to preserve that moment through the medium of photography, and represent my personal interaction with Korea, where they were taken. This unexpected flow of feelings in the instant before releasing the shutter informs my experience with the world and defines who I am as a person. These images of South Korea's plain and unadorned fringes peer into the depths of human solitude. They imagine people's unconscious striving to come to terms with their loneliness by facing up to the human condition squarely, steadfastly, serenely. - Jong Won Rhee The human subjects of Jong Won Rhee's photograph are, for the most part, turning away or turned in upon themselves. In fact, the characteristic blue rooftops, blooming poppies, garish billboards and store signs, the bundled spring onions at a market stall and the lush fields of South Korea all seem more colorful than the people we come across in these scenes of contemporary everyday life there.

Seller Inventory # LU-9783907236338

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Solitudes of Human Places
• Publisher: Edition Patrick Frey, CH
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3907236335
• ISBN 13: 9783907236338
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: New
• Dimensions: 17.78W x 1.91H x 27.94D centimeters 17.78 centimeters width by 1.91 centimeters height by 27.94 centimeters depth
• Weight: 839 grams

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Synopsis

Everyday life along South Korea’s fringes

These photographs by Jong Won Rhee form a raw portrait of life in South Korea, underscoring both the beauty of daily life and the existential dread and isolation felt by the artist’s subjects.

About the Author

Jong Won Rhee (né en 1973 à Hong Kong) a grandi en Corée du Sud, aux États-Unis, en Italie et en Australie. Après avoir étudié l'anglais à Séoul, il a poursuivi ses études de design industriel à la Central Saint Martins de Londres et de design automobile à l'université de Coventry. De retour en Corée du Sud, il s'est retiré de l'industrie et se consacre désormais entièrement à la photographie.