写真と詩をベースに作品を創っています。特に去年の夏からはユージーン　スミスの写真に強く影響された事もありドキュメンタリーやフォトエッセイを撮り始め、今では彼のような報道写真家になるのが夢です。
詩を書き続ける事は呼吸をするように不可欠なことで夢見たり憧れてなるものではなく、職業としての社会的基準で計ることも出来ません。報道写真家になりたい願望と私にとっての詩は両極にあるけれど写真を通じて対になり、いくつかの感情と重なり、形になります。
人々の生や痛み、悲しみ、見える表情の向こうの真実の感情、その姿のありのままを写真で伝えられたらと思います。

I have been on a journey to "the moment" since I lost nostalgia for my hometown. I was born in Japan to a father whose nationality was North Korean and a mother who came from a small island in South Korea. When I was a teenager, I suffered an identity crisis and this made me feel like I was completely alone.
The reason is not because I lost sight of my significance, because I pursued a freedom that is not shut out of any borders. Since I was early teen, I have been a writer, especially a poet, and believed that this is my vocation. However, the more experience I had more difficulties, I had to face on, I realized that I just wrote for only my satisfaction and gave myself to mental masturbation to ease my trauma, weakness, and pain. I was nineteen. I decided to come to New York to find “a new form of poetry” and something I can bet my life to accomplish it not to escape from anything.
I had several jobs exclude poet to save for playing the game in New York until I was twenty-two. I worked as a private detective, security guard, waitress, fake document writer, Japanese tutor, hotel manager assistant, editor, chat room host, and a writer. Since then, I was on firm ground as a thinking reed and I actually lived the present. Even if I had several jobs, that was because I had the reason that I wanted to come to New York and now I am actually here. I am on firm ground as a thinking reed and I actually live the present.
Since fall 2007, I studied photography and it has inspired me a lot like poetry have. I am into street photography, landscape, documentary and finding my own way creating photo poem. I made a photo poem “Nocturne” as first, documentaries “Coney Island Chronicle New Direction”, Times Squire “Awaken Reality Nobody Loves Me”, “Dear Nameless Travelers”, and Selected street photo book “New Americans & Me as Running Roach” and so on.
Like children who just started learning alphabet understand the meaning of the words, obtain knowledge and wisdom, and grow their imagination, I am shooting and studying photography. I would like to know that I can do with this new toy and I am sure there is no limited possibility if I possess free verse and vision of freedom.

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作品の特徴

ドキュメンタリー、フォトエッセイ、詩、ビジュアルポエム

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仕事内容

詩人、フリーランスライター、翻訳家、フォトグラプァー

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制作環境

ニューヨーク在住、作品の殆どはニューヨークのストリート、暗室でのプリント作業がベース

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趣味

読書、写真、写生、散歩、食、音楽等、好きで楽しい事は何でも趣味。