Honorable Mention TIFA 2025 Fine Art / Abstract

Breath of Wind

  • Photographer
    Jae Ho Bae
  • Technical Info
    different, Full - frame DSLR
  • Photo Date
    2024

wind is a common language beyond countries and peoples, a breath of creation and a flowing life. They don't stay in one place, they open up a world we haven't seen before. No matter how small the light is, it can be seen that light exists in a space that cannot be seen if it is gathered for a long time, and wind and time exist. I realized that the limitations of visual art that requires the use of cameras can be a tool to expand our eyes. For me, photography is a gift of light drawn by the wind and water by soaking it in the paint of light with a brush of time and space.

I regard nature not as an object of representation, but as a resonant field where creation and disappearance, presence and absence intersect. Rather than focusing on concrete subjects, I pay attention to flow, diffusion, silence, and traces of light. For me, photography is a form of visual contemplation that reveals the sensations of the inner self. Through the painterly quality of light, the abstraction of nature, and the contemplative space of emptiness, I seek to visualize the resonance of existence and the traces of invisible sensations.