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