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Art protects art
8 out of 10
artists are shut out by banks
354
loans extended to fellow artists
95%
repayment rate — trust comes full circle
~KRW 140M
interest saved vs. predatory rates
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
“I've been putting off urgent dental treatment because I can't afford it. I should be seeing a doctor regularly, but enduring instead of going has become a habit.”
— 50s, actor
“I kept delaying ear treatment because I had no money, and the symptoms in both ears worsened.”
— 30s, musician
“I couldn't pay my hospitalized mother's bills, so we had to delay her discharge, and she had to give up tests and treatment she needed.”
— 50s, actor/broadcaster
“Because of money troubles I had nowhere to go — drifting between gosiwon rooms and rehearsal studios, and for a while sleeping rough.”
— 30s, musician
“Because of unpaid rent, my collective was forced to vacate our shared workspace and home. Neither bank loans nor artist loans could help.”
— 50s, actor
“Without money, life collapses — and creating art? Out of the question.”
— 50s, artist
“It's painful that solving this month's money problems has to come before the work itself. As an artist, I can only earn well when the work succeeds — yet I have to chase odd jobs every month instead. It feels like being trapped in a vicious cycle.”
— 40s, musician
“Debt collection calls disrupted my rehearsals and performances, and the psychological burden made every day painful and the next day frightening.”
— 40s, theater artist
“Many times the loan payments looming each month forced me to step away from performing and focus on part-time work.”
— 50s, actor
“Sleeping less than four hours a night, juggling part-time jobs and theater — but the more I performed, the more debt piled up. Eventually I decided to quit performing.”
— 30s, actor
“When things were hardest, I couldn't even attend close friends' weddings or funerals — and as a result, relationships were severed.”
— 50s, actor/broadcaster
“When I said I was a stage actor, the loan officer called me "unemployed."”
— 50s, actor
“The shame and severed friendships that came with borrowing from people I knew, the pressure of failing to pay it back, the helplessness.”
— 50s, cartoonist/visual artist
“Even with programs meant for low-income citizens, I feel shame when I can't produce enough documentation simply because I'm an artist.”
— 30s, film/broadcasting professional
63 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
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.
About this work
〈Porco, Where Are You?-1〉 is a Photography work by Lee Sucheol. Created in 2011 on Pigment print on paper, measuring 70x46.6cm, from an edition of 5/5. Available as an original Korean contemporary artwork at SAF Online.
Key Career Highlights
B.A., Department of Photography, Osaka University of Art
M.A., Photography (Pure Photography / Image Science), Graduate School of Arts & Design, Sangmyung University
Solo Exhibition
2025 Space Thunder Invitational (Hyewon Photo Album), Space Thunder
Hyewon Photo Album, Iz Gallery
Jeju International Photo Exhibition Lee Sucheol Invitational (Jeju Non-Simultaneity), Gallery Simong
Journey of Memory, Solaris Gallery Osaka
2023 Journey of Memory, The Beam Gallery Daejeon
2022 Journey of Memory, Yeomi Gallery Seosan
2021 Traces and Light, Toma Gallery Daegu
2020 Daydream, Gallery Hyeyum Gwangju
2018 Non-Simultaneity Jeju, Yesul Sanghoe Toma (Daegu), Space 22 (Seoul), Bresson Gallery (Seoul), Yeomi Gallery (Seosan)
2016 Bresson Gallery x OhmyNews Joint Curated "Finding the Photographer" Lee Sucheol Solo Exhibition
"Day Dream", Bresson Gallery
2011 Hwamong Junggyeong, Geurimson Gallery
Resurrection 2012, Nabi Gallery
Lee Sucheol Photo Exhibition, Gallery Ui
2008 Epiphany of Illusion, Gallery ON; Architectural Photography, Bresson Gallery
2006 Landscape of Memory Drawn with Light, Nau Gallery
1999 Memories, Ihu Gallery
Group Exhibition
2025 2025 New Wave, Bresson Gallery
Insadong Art Week (IAW), Gallery 5
The Way We Remember, Index Gallery
2024 D*Composition, Space 22
2023 Life Memory Place, Doldam Gallery Jeju
2022 Chungnam National University 70th Anniversary Faculty Exhibition, Baekma Art Hall
Let's Play Exhibition, Heesu Gallery (Seoul), Haeundae Culture Center (Busan)
Jeju International Photo Festival, Doldam Gallery
Kim Young-seob Gallery Opening CONTEMPORARY KOREA PHOTOGRAPHY, Kim Young-seob Gallery
Alley Exhibition, Palais de Seoul
Feast of Photography, Doldam Gallery (Jeju)
2021 Jeju International Photo Festival, Ia Gallery
2020 Galleries Art Fair, COEX (Nau Gallery)
2019 On Photography, Bresson Gallery
2019 Gift Exhibition, Lotte Department Store Gallery Daejeon
2017 Island of Photography Songdo, Songdo Commodore Hotel, Pohang
2016 Hang Light in My Room, Space Opt
2015 DMC Art Festival, Digital Media City Gallery
Star Party, Space Sun+
Book Space Painting People Harmony Exhibition, Noeun Art Libro
2014 Contemporary Art Ruhr Media Art Fair, World Heritage Site, Zollverein, Essen, Germany
2013 ARTIST'S PRESENT, GALLERY SEIN
White Summer, Lotte Department Store Gallery Daejeon
2011 Splendid Heart, Eulji Media Gallery
2009 Contemporary Korea Photographs Exhibition, Osaka University of Art Information Center Exhibition Hall, Japan
2009 Seoul Museum of Art Photo Festival Circulation of Photography, Seoul Museum of Art
Pilmuk & Photo, Mulpa Space
Unexpected Landscape Lee Sucheol-Jo Miyoung 2-Person Exhibition, Space Mobin
2008 2008 WAKE UP New Exploration of Korean Photography, Lux Gallery
Deep-Rooted Photo Exhibition, Gallery Irum
Invisible Space, Sangmyung University Arts Design Center Gallery
Sky Name Earth Exhibition, Gallery Irum
2005 60th Anniversary of Liberation Korean Photography Past and Present, Gwanghwamun Gallery
2004 Korea-Japan Photo Exchange Exhibition: 14 Photographers of the Ark, Japan Cultural Center Silk Gallery
2001 SAKA-NO MACHI ART in Yatsuo 2001, Toyama Yatsuo, Japan, and other group exhibitions
Team Project Activities
2018 Non-Simultaneity Jeju, Biotope Gallery Jeju (Jeju Foundation for Arts & Culture Grant)
2017 Incheon Women Just As You Are, Incheon Art Platform (Incheon Foundation for Arts & Culture Grant)
2016 2016 Incheon Women, Seongwang Museum of Art (Incheon Foundation for Arts & Culture Grant)
Career
2007-2012 Lecturer, Department of Photography, Daegu Arts University
2008-2009 Lecturer, College of Art, Kookmin University
2013-Present Lecturer, Department of Photography & Media, Sangmyung University
2010-Present Lecturer, Department of Design Creativity, Chungnam National University
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SAF Photographers — From Documentary to Camera-less Photography
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Photography Without a Camera: Lee Sucheol at the Edge of the Photographic
Lee Sucheol asks whether photography requires a camera. Through development alone, image-making without capture — *Nonsynchrony-Jeju*, *Day Dream*, *Memory Journey*.
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- One of only 5 limited prints
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- the next month of their practice
- 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.