Son Eunyoung studied Western painting, then set down the brush for 20 years of motherhood. Picking up a camera to photograph her children led her into photography.
Son Eunyoung studied painting and then gave it up for 20 years.
A graduate of Ewha Womans University Western painting, she set down the brush after marriage to be beside her children. She bought a camera to record her children growing. That camera led her into photography.
When Her Children Began Avoiding the Camera
At first she photographed her children. Then they began avoiding the camera. With her subject disappearing where the lens pointed, she had to find another. That's when house entered her eye.
Majoring in photography-design at Hongik Graduate School of Industrial Art, she began planting the color sense and composition of Western painting into photography. The boundary between the two media became her practice.
In 2018, selected through the Seoul City Hall Skygarden Gallery open call, she held her first solo, The Underground. The next year, Black House (2019) at Gallery Bresson. To photograph houses destroyed in the Goseong (Gangwon) wildfire, she visited the site every two weeks for a year. A pivot where photography's facticity shifted toward painterly transformation.
The Houses at Night
— real, yet a landscape beyond the real
Her The Houses at Night series, in full swing from 2020, led to the 2nd FNK Photography Award in 2021.
