Photographer SEOK-WOO SONG is the Edge of Humanity Magazine contributor of this photo essay. From the ongoing project ‘Wandering, Wondering’. To see SEOK-WOO ’s body of work, click on any photograph.

‘Wandering, Wondering’ is a story of all of us, becoming adults, getting more socialized, and living in a systematic social structure.

Without looking back, we live in a life that fits already into the familiar flow following only dreams and ideals we’re aiming for, the naturalness of time that goes by constantly.

Through this work, I have a chance to explore my 20s already passed by and past time which entered between the gap of familiarity. These produced images are stories intended for the young who cannot adapt to the social structure, which is changing quickly, above all men in their 20s.

The eyes coming from between unfamiliar spaces and strangers are begun by wandering around places and environments where you can get someone else’s feeling such as strangers and universally abandoned spaces.

It also is produced by freely combining images across the boundary line of consciousness and unconsciousness based on social factors and narratives with characters. I was concerned about relationships that people build up with others and mainly intended to explore the way people interact, and the social principles involved in it, using gesture language.

I hope that not only 20s, but everyone who encounters this work will be able to sympathize by watching the gesture language of the process head for society in this work, reminiscing about their past or expecting their future.

Biography

SEOK-WOO SONG graduated from B.F.A in Department of Photography and Media, Daegu Arts University and graduated with a master's degree M.F.A in Department of Photographic Design, Hongik University graduate School of Industrial Arts. He is currently attending his master's degree M.F.A in the Department of Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts, Korea National University of Arts.

He mostly grasps characters and social relations, currently is concerned with relationships people build up with others from individual narratives, works to explore the way people interact with each other, social fundamentals involved in it mostly using gesture language and performance. BIO DETAILS

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