The South / ์ผ€์ด์ฑ„ ์‚ฌ์ง„์ „

From April 25th to May 7th, I had a new exhibition in Seoul, titled The South. It was an exhibition for my recent work in South America. From photographs made during that 227 days journey into the continent, I picked out some I liked for the show. It was my first exhibition in a year.

I wasn’t sure how it’d turn out to be. I readied the exhibition without any help or sponsorship. Every concept to execution it was all done by me. And it’s not like I’m a celebrity. However the exhibition got such great attention and the numbers of visitors who came by were much more than my anticipation. I conducted my own docent programs, explaining exhibited works by myself. I’m a such a story teller so it was fun for me as well, although doing it for 3 times a day for 2 weeks time was a hard work. My throat was in bad shape after first day. But I managed. The words got out my works are good, and my docent is entertaining. More and more people came. The gallery people were surprised. They never had an exhibition by individual that gathers this many people. I feel like I’ve done a good job.

I’m not sure when my next exhibition will be. Hoping it to be sometime next year. I also plan on having an exhibition outside Korea sometime too. It’s still a long shot but there are things I want to do in next few years. I want to take my work out there. I feel I have bigger market and bigger audience outside Korea. It’s something I’ll be concentrating on come next year. In the meantime though, the exhibition was such a success. I’m very proud. Still a long way to go, but at least this proved to me that I’m doing something right. It’s been 10 years since I started this life as a photographer. I am just glad I didn’t waste all those years.

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์ง€๋‚œ 4์›”25์ผ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ 5์›”7์ผ๊นŒ์ง€ ์‚ฌ์ง„์ „์„ ๊ฐ€์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋” ์‚ฌ์šฐ์Šค๋ผ๋Š” ํƒ€์ดํ‹€์˜ ์ด๋ฒˆ ์ „์‹œ๋Š” ์ž‘๋…„ 227์ผ๊ฐ„ ๋‚จ๋ฏธ์™€ ๋‚จ๊ทน๋Œ€๋ฅ™์„ ์‚ฌ์ง„์œผ๋กœ ๋‹ด์•˜๋˜ ์ž‘์—…์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๋Š” ์ž๋ฆฌ์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งŽ์€ ์‚ฌ์ง„์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ข‹์•„ํ•˜๋Š”, ์ „์‹œ์— ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€ ์‚ฌ์ง„๋“ค์„ ๊ณจ๋ผ ์ด๋ฒˆ์— ์„ ๋ณด์ด๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์•ผ์‹ฌ์ฐจ๊ฒŒ ์ค€๋น„ํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ๋งŽ์ด ์˜ฌ์ง€, ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ์–ด์ฐŒ๋ ์ง€ ์˜ˆ์ƒ์กฐ์ฐจ ์–ด๋ ค์› ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์–ด๋– ํ•œ ๋„์›€๋„, ์Šคํฐ์„œ๋„ ์—†์ด ํ˜ผ์ž ์ค€๋น„ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ „์‹œ ๊ธฐํš๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋ชจ๋“  ์•„์ด๋””์–ด๋Š” ์ €์˜ ๋จธ๋ฆฌ์—์„œ. ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹คํ–‰ํ•œ ์ „์‹œ์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์—ฐ์˜ˆ์ธ์ธ ๊ฒƒ๋„ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‹ˆ, ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ด ์ „์‹œ๋ฅผ ์•Œ๋ฆด๊นŒ. ๊ณ ๋ฏผ๋„ ๋งŽ์•˜์ฃ . ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ €์˜ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ๊ฑฑ์ •๊ณผ ๋‹ฌ๋ฆฌ ์ •๋ง ๋งŽ์€ ๋ถ„๋“ค์ด ์ „์‹œ์žฅ์„ ์ฐพ์•„์ฃผ์…จ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งค์ผ ์ง์ ‘ ๋„์ŠจํŠธ ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ์„ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์ €์˜ ์‚ฌ์ง„์„ ์ €์˜ ์ž…์œผ๋กœ ์„ค๋ช…ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งํ•˜๋Š”๊ฑธ ์ข‹์•„ํ•˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด๋ผ ์ €์—๊ฒŒ๋„ ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์šด ์ผ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์—ญ์‹œ ํ•˜๋ฃจ 3ํšŒ ์ด์ƒ ๋„์ŠจํŠธ๋ฅผ ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋ชฉ์— ๋ฌด๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€๋Š” ์ผ์ด์—ˆ๋‚˜ ๋ด…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2์ฃผ ๋‚ด๋‚ด ์„ฑ๋Œ€๊ฐ€ ์•ˆ์ข‹์•„์„œ ๊ณ ์ƒ์„ ์ข€ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋•๋ถ„์— ์ €์˜ ์‚ฌ์ง„์ด ์ข‹๋‹ค๋Š” ์†Œ๋ฌธ๋„ ๋‚˜๊ณ , ๋„์ŠจํŠธ๊ฐ€ ์žฌ๋ฐŒ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ํ˜๋Ÿฌ ๋‚˜๊ฐ€์„œ ์ „์‹œ๊ฐ€ ๋’ค๋กœ ๊ฐˆ์ˆ˜๋ก ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ๋ถ„๋“ค์ด ์ฐพ์•„์ฃผ์…จ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐค๋Ÿฌ๋ฆฌ ์ธก์—์„œ๋„ ๋งŽ์ด ๋†€๋ž์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•œ ์ž‘๊ฐ€์˜ ๊ฐœ์ธ์ „์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๋งŽ์€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ์˜ค๋Š” ์ „์‹œ๋Š” ๋ณด์ง€ ๋ชปํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ „์‹œ๊ฐ€ ๋๋‚˜๊ณ  ๋Œ์•„๋ณด๋‹ˆ ์ƒ๊ฐ๋ณด๋‹ค๋„ ๋” ์ž˜ ํ•ด๋‚ธ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„์„œ ๋ฟŒ๋“ฏํ•œ ๊ธฐ๋ถ„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋‹ค์Œ ์ „์‹œ๊ฐ€ ์–ธ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋ ์ง€๋Š” ๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•„๋งˆ ๋‚ด๋…„ ์–ธ์ œ์ฏค์ด๋ฉด ์ข‹๊ฒ ๋‹ค ์ •๋„๋กœ ์ƒ๊ฐ๋งŒ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์ง€์š”. ์•ž์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ํ•œ๊ตญ์ด ์•„๋‹Œ ์™ธ๊ตญ์—์„œ์˜ ์ „์‹œ๋„ ๊ฐ€์ ธ๋ณด๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐ”๋กœ ์ด๋ฃจ๊ธด ์–ด๋ ต๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋กœ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ค‘ ํ•œ๊ฐ€์ง€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•ด์™ธ์— ์ œ ์‚ฌ์ง„์„ ๋” ์•Œ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ผ ๋ง์ด์ฃ . ์ €์˜ ์‚ฌ์ง„์€ ์™ธ๊ตญ ์‹œ์žฅ์— ๋” ์ž˜ ์–ด์šธ๋ฆฐ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ œ ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ๋‚˜๊ฐ€๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์„ ๋” ํ•ด๋ณด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ๋ช‡๋…„๊ฐ„ ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€ ์ผ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์–ด์จŒ๋“  ์ด๋ฒˆ ์ „์‹œ๋Š” ์„ฑ๊ณต์ ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•„์ง๋„ ๊ฐˆ ๊ธธ์ด ๋ฉ€์ง€๋งŒ ์ด ์ „์‹œ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ๊ฐ„ ํ•ด์˜จ ์ผ๋“ค์ด ํ—›๋˜์ง„ ์•Š์•˜๊ตฌ๋‚˜ ํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ฏฟ์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‚ฌ์ง„๊ฐ€์˜ ๊ธธ์„ ๊ฑธ์–ด์˜จ์ง€ 10๋…„์ด ๋„˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ ์–ด๋„ ๊ทธ ์‹œ๊ฐ„๋“ค์„ ๋‚ญ๋น„ํ•˜์ง€๋Š” ์•Š์•˜๊ตฌ๋‚˜ ์‹ถ์–ด์„œ ๋‹คํ–‰์ด๋‹ค ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•ž์œผ๋กœ 10๋…„๋„ ์ž˜ํ•ด๋‚˜๊ฐˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ.


Still Under Construction / ์•„์ง ๊ณต์‚ฌ์ค‘

Hi, this is K. Chae.

Thanks for visiting my official website. As you might notice, the site isn’t yet complete. I made move to Format just last  month, but didn’t have enough time yet to upload all my best images. Be patient, and I will soon finish it all up! And watch this space as I will share my insight on photography from time to time. See ya all around!


์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์„ธ์š”, ์ผ€์ด์ฑ„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ €์˜ ๊ณต์‹ ํ™ˆํŽ˜์ด์ง€์— ๋“ค๋ ค์ฃผ์…”์„œ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ˆˆ์น˜์ฑ„์…จ์„ ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์•„์ง ์™„์„ฑ์ด ์•ˆ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ๋Š” ์ƒํƒœ๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋””์ž์ธ์€ ์–ด๋Š์ •๋„ ๋์ง€๋งŒ ์•„์ง ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์„œ๋น„์Šค๋กœ ์˜ฎ๊ฒจ ์˜ค๋ฉด์„œ ์ €์˜ ๋Œ€ํ‘œ์ž‘๋“ค์„ ๋‹ค ์—…๋กœ๋“œํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋จธ์ž–์•„ ์—…๋กœ๋“œ ์ž‘์—…๋„ ๋๋‚ด๊ณ  ์™„๋ฒฝํ•œ ๋ชจ์Šต์œผ๋กœ ์˜คํ”ˆํ• ํ…Œ๋‹ˆ ๊ทธ๋•Œ๊นŒ์ง€ ์กฐ๊ธˆ๋งŒ ์ฐธ์•„์ฃผ์„ธ์š”. ์ด ๋ธ”๋กœ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์‚ฌ์ง„์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ด๋Ÿฐ ์ €๋Ÿฐ ์–˜๊ธฐ๋„ ํ‹ˆํ‹ˆํžˆ ์˜ฌ๋ฆฌ๋ ค๊ณ  ํ•˜๋‹ˆ ์ฆ๊ฒจ๋ด์ฃผ์‹œ๋ฉด ์ข‹๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿผ! ^^

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