EARLY WORKS - DOUBLE EXPOSURE 1994

Then in 1994, one day in the dark room, I spontaneously sandwitched two negatives, in which one was a negative of a subway station and the other was sky, and then printed on ther same photo paper. The result looked amasing and encouraged me to do more. After I finished the series of pictures of subways stations combined with sky and waters, my creative energy expanded to entire New York City. I ran around the city and shot various monuments and combined them with natural objects such as clouds and water in the dark room. While computer generated art-making was not yet popular at that time, I had to do all the process manually by hand, in order to create seamlesly blended images. I often stayed in the darkroom many hours and had tried tirelessly to get the right images.

 

 

EARLY WORKS - PINHOLE 1994

This was my first experiment with a pinhole camera which was created with my 35 mm SLR camera and its lens cap with a tiny hole drilled. I shot those images at the corner of 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue on a bright sunny afternoon. In the images, you can find a presence of skyscrapers.