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Better Days

Over 40 years, South Korea’s growth brought long hours and short vacations. Weekends and short holidays are spent at local festivals or nearby attractions with family and friends. These moments, rooted in pragmatism and community-oriented individualism, form collective landscapes of emotional bonds.

Awards

Photographer of the Year Contest

2025

Bronze

Film/Analog

Professional

Better Days

Over 40 years, South Korea’s growth brought long hours and short vacations. Weekends and short holidays are spent at local festivals or nearby attractions with family and friends. These moments, rooted in pragmatism and community-oriented individualism, form collective landscapes of emotional bonds.

About Artist

Seunggu Kim

Seunggu Kim is a Seoul-based photographer whose work explores the complexities and tensions of contemporary life by visually balancing familiar everyday scenes with subtle, uncanny elements. His practice centers on themes such as the city, the suburbs, leisure, and climate, examining the evolving interplay between tradition and modernity, and between spiritual values and material desires. ​ He has held over ten solo exhibitions, including at Filter Space in Chicago (2019) and The Korea Society in New York (2019), and has participated in numerous group exhibitions at institutions such as the Center for Creative Photography in Arizona, Photoville and Aperture Gallery in New York, and FotoFest in Houston. Kim was the recipient of the 13th Ilwoo Photography Award in the Publishing category, the Life Framer Photography Award (Grand Prize), and was selected as a finalist for the 11th KT&G SKOPF (Sangsangmadang Korean Photographer's Fellowship). His work is included in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP) in Chicago, the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow, and the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea. ​

Seunggu Kim

Photographic Areas of Focus

Film/Analog, Landscapes, People

Location

South Korea

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