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Breath

Are we only struggling within a fate already written?

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Color Photography Contest

2026

Honorable Mentions

Storytelling

Non Professional

Breath

Are we only struggling within a fate already written?

About Artist

Leebaeck Choi

For over thirty years, my photography was rooted in black and white, using boundaries, structures, and silence to question existence and disappearance. Recently, my artistic focus has decisively shifted to color. While black and white relies on stark forms and precise distinctions, color allows subjects to dissolve, spread, and embrace uncertainty. Through this shift, my long-standing questions about being have found a new language in abstraction. I now explore how existence proves itself through traces, dissolutions, intervals, and the sensations left behind. My color photography moves away from direct representation while remaining deeply connected to reality. This pursuit is difficult, but that difficulty is also what makes photography endlessly compelling to me.

Leebaeck Choi

Photographic Areas of Focus

Abstract, Minimalism, Minimalism, Nature, People, Portrait, Travel

Location

South Korea

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