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• Prize
  Gold in Fine Art/Abstract
• Photographer
  Kwak Poung Young, Korea, Republic of
• Date of Photograph
  2025
• Studio
  Candybookns
• Website
  https://artspoon.io/showcase/poungyoung
• Instagram
  @poung_young

This series examines Korean farmlands through aerial and drone photography, focusing on how human labor, agricultural systems, and natural processes shape the land. Unlike large-scale industrial farms, Korea’s fields are small, irregular, and densely layered, allowing planting and harvesting to coexist within a single frame. By photographing at low altitudes under overcast light, the artist reveals hidden geometries, repetitive structures, and traces of labor embedded in the soil. The work presents farmland not simply as a productive site, but as a cultural, historical, and political landscape

Alongside his artistic practice, Kwak serves as the director of Art and Culture Korea, an international
arts exchange organization. Since 2018, he has organized cultural exchange programs and international
photography exhibitions throughout Europe and Asia, encouraging dialogue between Korean photographers
and artists from around the world. Through both his creative and curatorial work, Kwak continues to
position photography as a medium for global exchange and environmental reflection.

Awards 1839 Awards, Professional Aerial Silver (2025)
IPA Honorable Mention (2025)
JDFF Genre Award, 3rd Place (2022)
Korea Future Culture Contribution Award (2021)