Lee Sucheol asks whether photography requires a camera. Through development alone, image-making without capture — *Nonsynchrony-Jeju*, *Day Dream*, *Memory Journey*.
For Lee Sucheol, photography is not a medium — it's a question.
"If photography is simply a process of making an image, the traditional premise that one must photograph something with a camera can be overturned."
He actually experiments with making results through the development process alone, without camera or film. Whether the final image is called photography, imagegraph, or digigraph isn't important to him. His posture: "the camera is merely one mechanism for capturing phenomena." A try to extend the photographer's seat into the seat of an image-maker.
Osaka, Sangmyung, and the Lectern
He graduated in photography from Osaka University of Arts, then received his MA in Pure / Image Science at Sangmyung University Graduate School of Art and Design.
The pure photography he studied signifies a posture concentrating on art's inner value rather than directly carrying social message or the spirit of the age. On that ground, he repeatedly experiments with the ontological boundary of photography.
His teaching record is long. Daegu University of Arts photography (2007–2012), Kookmin University School of Arts (2008–2009), Sangmyung University photo-video (2013–present), Chungnam National University design-creation (2010–present). A generation of photography students passed through his classroom.
