water flower

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Jaeho Bae, Korea, Republic of
• Date of Photograph
  2022~2024
• Website
  https://bae.artspoon.io/ko
• Instagram
  @baejaeho79

Water is a universal language that transcends borders and cultures—a breath of creation and the essence of life in motion.
It never stays in one place but opens up a world we have yet to see.
On the surface of the water, organic lines form in free-flowing patterns.
With its constant movement and boundless freedom, water meets light to create infinite, ever-changing images.
At the boundary of the water’s surface, countless stories unfolded, and flowers bloomed—ones that had never existed in the world before.
The formless nature of water and its endless variations hold infinite beauty.

I regard nature not as an object of representation, but as a resonant field where creation and disappearance, presence and absence intersect. Rather than focusing on concrete subjects, I pay attention to flow, diffusion, silence, and traces of light.
For me, photography is a form of visual contemplation that reveals the sensations of the inner self. Through the painterly quality of light, the abstraction of nature, and the contemplative space of emptiness, I seek to visualize the resonance of existence and the traces of invisible sensations.

Awards 2025 Tokyo International Foto Awards (TIFA), Honorable Mention – Abstract, Japan
2025 ND Photography Awards, Honorable Mention – Abstract, Europe
2025 Prix de la Photographie Paris (PX3), Honorable Mention – Abstract, FR
2025 International Photography Awards (IPA), Honorable Mention – Abstract & Minimal, USA
2025 Monovisions Photography Awards, Honorable Mention – Abstract, UK
2025 Fine Art Photography Awards (FAPA), Nominee – Abstract, UK
2024 ND Photography Awards, Honorable Mention – Abstract, Europe