A Vision Beyond Limits

Photographer Park Jin-ha embarks on his journey as both a pilgrim and a wanderer, seeking the essence of nature. After meticulous research, he arrives at carefully chosen locations, waiting patiently sometimes for hours, sometimes for days to capture the perfect moment of sublime beauty.

From a single site, he takes thousands, even tens of thousands of images, later reassembling and refining them with painstaking precision.

His work transcends the conventional boundaries of photography, emerging as a visual art form of immense depth and effort a distilled result of tireless dedication.He defies humanity’s conventional notions of time, scale, and perspective, reconstructing a space where countless moments merge into one. What he presents is a vast, surreal landscape where the ceaseless transformation of time and space is encapsulated within a single frame. For him, photography is not a static fragment of time but a dynamic, living entity, where each pixel breathes with microscopic precision, akin to the intricate cells of a living organism. His is a world composed solely of light, stone, and water a world born from the arduous path of his artistic pilgrimage, where boundaries dissolve, and all preconceived forms are questioned.

"Vision of Beyond" compels us to extend our perception beyond the tangible reality we recognise. It invites insight and imagination, embedding the traces of time within the most realistic depictions of existence while simultaneously reflecting the unrelenting harshness of our own reality. In a world of ambiguity and uncertainty, Park moves through the ever-shifting fabric of time and space, offering a perspective that surpasses conventional limits. With a gaze both serene and resolute, he contemplates the eternal essence of Korea’s breathtaking natural landscapes.

*"He observes mountains and seas as an explorer, as a scientist—collecting optical data, measuring physical conditions, analysing the conditional world of nature as dictated by the causality of time and space. The landscapes he frames and refines reveal their existential truths through countless layers of memory. Yet this is no passive revelation of existence; rather, it is an unspoken signal, a silent voice emitted by the very essence of being. His role is to present a scene—not through arbitrary interpretation, but as a state of ‘self-so-ness’ (自然), the most neutral and essential condition of existence.

Nothing is fixed, nor absolute. All things flow, transform, and become. His subjects do not exist as static beings confined to a two-dimensional coordinate plane; they vibrate, they move. Appearing motionless yet shifting, shifting yet still, this uncertain space-time continuum is captured through the science of photography—not merely documented but drawn, created, brought into existence."*

— Lee Geon-soo (Art Critic, Exhibition Curator)

"Park Jin-ha constructs architecture through photography. Unlike artists swayed by passing trends, he remains steadfast in his convictions, pursuing the unknown with unwavering resolve. His rigorous architectural training has honed his intuition, allowing him to immerse himself in a world of pure perception. There is an almost monastic discipline in his approach—beyond strict methodology, it echoes the devotion of a spiritual seeker."

— Lee Kyung-taek (CEO, Urban Architecture Design Office)

"We have to remember that what we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning."

— Werner Karl Heisenberg (1901–1976, Nobel Laureate, Pioneer of Quantum Mechanics, Founder of the Uncertainty Principle)

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