breath of wind

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

Wind is a universal language that transcends borders and cultures—a breath of creation and a flowing life.
It never stays in one place but reveals a world we have yet to see.
Even the faintest light, if gathered over time, becomes visible in an unseen space—where wind and time quietly exist.
I came to realize that the limitations of visual art, bound by the use of a camera, can paradoxically serve as a tool to expand our vision.
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