Light of Darkness

• Photographer
  Eun Kwang Light Park, Korea, Republic of

The time dominated by the dark brings about difficulties in
recognizing things and fears of invisible things, which would lead
to a desire to search for the light. To me, light is an existence that
shines the world, and salvation or hope. When the dark, which
makes it difficult to exactly recognize things, comes after daytime,
my behavior begins. When I encountered the time of the dark and
the space where it is difficult to find the source of light, I imagined
an unexpected ray of light, and I combined my active acts to
embody the light and record pictures. Searching for space and
time was a journey that I took to find the truth as a photographer,
and I conducted acts to shine divided and selected spaces. This is
also an exploration of various meanings that the light has, beyond
the acts of simple imagination and reproduction. As a faith in
reality unseen, I tried to prove that my behaviors could be
recorded and memorized through photos, beyond the
reproduction of a moment. Recording and showing things unseen
forever and proving things unseen are what I actually want to show
through photos. It is because I believe purifying and recording
values regarding truth are the very capabilities of photos. When
the truth of pictures is converted by a creative way, result works
made and shot by a photographer are delivered to the public as
real experiences. If realistic ‘reproduction’ of unreality ‘embodied’
at specific time and space by the photographer’s selection, not
through a method that saves and prints only real situations, is
delivered to audiences through pictures, it means that the
reproduction has been ‘converted’ to another figure of ‘reality’, so
the combination of acts and shooting in this work was very
appropriate.

Awards Exhibitions
Solo Show
2012
‘Beyond The Light’ bcs Gallery, LIC, New York
2011
‘Like an Afterimage’ Gallery LUX, Seoul, Korea
‘Like an Afterimage’ TOYOTA Art Space, Busan, Korea
‘Like an Afterimage’ Gallery Tin, Seoul, Korea

Art Fair
2013, Art Fair, Korea Galleries Art Fair at COEX, Seoul, Korea
2012, Korean Art Show, Special Exhibition, Soho, New York

Group Show
2014
We all in the Truth, Alejandrogallery, Barcelona, Spain
2013
Luminous Light, Black Box Gallery, Oregon, United States
International Art Festival, 25CPW, NYC, United States
24th Annual Juried Show, Contemporary Arts Center, Las Vegas, United States(forthcoming)
2470mm, Shinhan Gallery, Manhattan, United States
Photo Salon, Black Box Gallery, Oregon, United States
Gallery LVS, Seoul, Korea
2012
Brenda Taylor Gallery, Chelsea, New York
Hongik museum of art, Rookie Photo Festival, Seoul, Korea
1650Gallery, ,Los Angeles, United States
JEFFREY LEDER Gallery, LIC, New York
Yegam Art Space, Queens, New York
Siskind Gallery, Rochester, New York
Arnold and Sheila Aronson Gallery, Manhattan, New York
Art Kudos International Exhibition
Duo, Gallery Avenue, Seoul, Korea
Kips Gallery, Chelsea, New York
Photoville Festival, Brooklyn, New York
‘Grow’ Midwest Center for Photography, Kansas, United States
‘Parts and Labor II’, Manhattan, New York
‘Parts and Labor’, Atrium Gallery, Philadelphia, United States
2011
SIGHT=SITE, Motive Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2010
Three Gallery, Manhattan, New York Program

Artist Residency Program
2012 Artist Residency Program in New York (ARPNY)

Publications
2014
Live Sketch, Monthly Photography, 4pages, Jan

2013
25-35 age Artist who We focused on , Monthly Art, page 74-99(98)
Rookies of The Year, Monthly Art, Korea, page 74-99(98)
Special Interview. Photographic Art, Korea, page 46-49

2012
Photo+ Vol. Nov2012-Monologue
Photographic Art Magazine Korea Vol. September 2012 – Interview, New Generation Artist
Photoview Monthly Magazine, Vol. August 2012
DenW Vol. Jan-Feb 2012, Theme Gallery, 'I Wish for...'
2011
Photographic Art Magazine Korea Vol. September 2011– Main Cover Image
Photographic Art Magazine Korea – 4 Pages
Ground Magazine, (Text Written by Simon Douglas) Issue 10

2009
Photographic Art Magazine Korea – 6pages

Award/Grant
• 21st ‘Today’s Young Artist’ Art, Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism
• Sang Myung Art Award 2013
• CAC Annual Juried Competetion, Las Vegas, United States
• Juried Exhibition, Brenda Taylor
• Balance NYC
• MFA NOW -Juried by Lisa Sutcliffe at SFMOMA/Conference with Eastman
• ipa(International Photography Awards)/Honorable Mention
• Artavita 2nd Art Contest/Honorable Mention
• Art Kudos International Exhibition
• Art People Visual Art award, Seoul, Korea
• Group Exhibition ‘Grow’, Kansas, United States
• Korean Art Show, Special Exhibition Competition
• Gallery LUX, Emerging Artist
• Korea Advertising Photograph Competition
• International Dong-Ah Marathon Photo Exhibition