동강국제사진제 : 동강 사진상 수상자 전 (2021.07.16

정보수정요청
Period\|	2021.07.16 - 2021.09.19
Operating hours\|	09:00 - 18:00
Space\|	Dong Gang Museum of Photography
Address\|	1909-10, Yeongwol-ro, Yeongwol-eup, Yeongwol-gun, Gangwon-do, Republic of Korea
Closed\|	holiday
Price\|	Adult: 3,000 won Student/Soldier: 1,500 won Children: 1,000 won -Free for preschoolers and over 65 years old. - 50% discount for Yeongwol-gun residents
Phone\|	033-375-4554
Web site\|	홈페이지 바로가기
Artist\|	변순철

Exhibition Information

Bonghwa-gun, Gyeongsangbuk-do
2014 © 2021 DongGang International Photo Festival (출처= 동강국제사진전)

Kid Nostalgia
1997 © 2021 DongGang International Photo Festival (출처= 동강국제사진전)

Interracial Couple
2000 © 2021 DongGang International Photo Festival (출처= 동강국제사진전)

Vanue

Donggang Museum of Photography Gallery3

Exhibition Overview.

The winner of this year’s DongGang Photography Award is Byun Soon Choel. Throughout his career, Byun has produced portrait images of the people in socio-culturally symptomatic situations. One of his early works Interracial Couple touches on the issues such as cultural clash, alienation, gender and racial issues, the failure of family as a social institution.

After returning to his home country, he made a photo series capturing the images of singing contest participants revealing their sheer passion that had been suppressed by external social norms. To Byun, our faces underneath social masks are what reveals the truth - however shallow or uncultured they may seem. Byun’s work reminds us that authentic emotions can seem both familiar and foreign at the same time. In Eternal Family, Byun digitally projects the imagined looks of the lost family members based on their old photos and reunites the families that had been separated by Korean War.

(Source = Donggang International Photo Festival)