Price
₩1,000,000
Art protects art
8 out of 10
artists are shut out by banks
Until the next exhibition, the next performance. For artists, income gaps are an unavoidable reality. For fellow artists forced into predatory loans just to afford paint, canvas, and studio rent, proceeds from this artwork become the Seed Fund — extending a fair hand at fair rates.
Voices of fellow artists
“The memory of going hungry for three days, alone, so my children wouldn't know.”
— 50s, theater artist
168 artworks sold, each becoming a seed of solidarity
One artwork becomes the oxygen that keeps a fellow artist creating.
Sales proceeds go to the artist mutual-aid fund.
Porco, Where Are You?-1
Lee Sucheol
- Category
- Photography
- Material
- Pigment print on paper What's a pigment print? →
- Size
- 46.6×70cm · Size 20 · Medium How big is this? →
- Year
- 2011
- Edition
- Edition 5/5 What's an edition? →
- Price
- ₩1,000,000
- Availability
- For sale
About the Artist
Photographer Lee Soocheol studied photography at Osaka University of Arts, establishing his artistic foundation within the category of 'pure' photography. The 'pure' photography in which he trained implies an attitude focused on the intrinsic value of art itself, rather than directly conveying social messages or the spirit of the times. Lee's work is characterized by expanding the ontological boundaries of photography. He does not view photography merely as a tool for capturing subjects. If photography is simply a process of creating images, then the traditional premise that one must photograph something with a camera can be dismantled. Indeed, he embraces diverse photographic processes, including methods that produce results using only the printing process without a camera or film. Ultimately, what matters to him is not whether the final product is classified as 'photography,' 'imagegraph,' or 'digigraph.' For him, the camera is merely one mechanism for capturing phenomena, and he believes that if an artist can create images in their own way and convey a message through them, that in itself holds sufficient artistic value.
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Apr 20, 2026 · Seed Art Festival
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Lee Sucheol asks whether photography requires a camera. Through development alone, image-making without capture — *Nonsynchrony-Jeju*, *Day Dream*, *Memory Journey*.
Apr 20, 2026 · Seed Art Festival
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The flow of Korean documentary and landscape photography — the practices of three masters Cho Mun-ho, Jeong Yeong-shin, and Kim Soo-oh, plus five collecting perspectives.
May 10, 2026 · Seed Art FestivalRelated materials
Two beginnings made by one piece
- For you —
- One of only 5 limited prints
- For the artist —
- the pride of standing with a peer
- For a fellow artist —
- a new ₩3,000,000 path of low-interest support
354 artists have walked this path of recovery; 95% returned to open it for the next.