Honorable Mention / 2022 / Fine Art / Abstract

Dream trip to heaven 夢遊桃源

  • Photographer
    Won-Chae Jo, Korea, Republic of

These works depict a dreaming world by abstractly expressing waves. The subject is a dream of the future. As science advances, dreams that you feel through your body disappear. Dreams are imagination, reality without dreams is a dead life. A future without dreams has no hope. Paradoxically, in the digital media era, I tried to portray the ideal world of oriental thought in a photograph using an analog way of thinking. This photo was taken with inspiration from the 'Mongyudowondo 夢遊桃源圖' painted by the Korean painter An Gyeon. Mongyudowon 夢遊桃源 means an imaginary world like heaven.

Graduated from Kyungsung University College of Arts, Department of Photography(B.F.A), South Korea
Graduated from Hongik University Graduate School, Department of Design, Photography Major(M.F.A), South Korea

Awards 2021 International Photography Awards ‘1st Place’ in Fine art/Abstract, USA

2021 Prix de la Photographie Paris.(PX3) ‘Silver’ in Fine Art/Abstract, France
2021 Budapest International Foto Awards 'Bronze' in Fine Art/Abstract, Hungary