forest of reflection

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Jaeho Bae, Korea, Republic of
• Date of Photograph
  2021 ~ 2024
• Website
  https://bae.artspoon.io/ko
• Instagram
  @baejaeho79

Water nourishes all things without contention, embracing everything with boundless love.
As I walked through the garden of water, I encountered the vibrant, abstract beauty of tree shadows reflected on its surface.
The water, meeting the wind, blessed the tree awaiting spring, painting an unforeseen abstraction.
I realized that beauty lies in recognizing what already exists with new eyes.
For me, photography is a gift of light drawn by the wind and water by soaking it in the paint of light with a brush of time and space.

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