Lee Jong-Keun Voer een
gevoel, niet
een galerie.
Kies een stemming en de kamer zelf antwoordt — het licht koelt of warmt op, de sfeer verandert van tempo, en alleen de werken die dat gevoel belichamen, treden naar voren uit de duisternis. De rest verdwijnt in de schaduw.
Lee Jong-Keun
The Scars of Hiroshima and the Birth of a Vision In the searing summer of 1945, the world changed irrevocably for a sixteen-year-old boy in Hiroshima. For Lee Jong-keun, the arrival of the atomic bomb was not merely a historical event but a visceral, sensory trauma—a sudden, piercing yellow light and a heat so intense it felt as though the very air was combusting. This moment of profound destruction became the silent architect of his en
tire artistic existence. To look through Lee’s lens was to engage with the echoes of that morning; his work was never merely about capturing light, but about documenting the resilience that emerges from the ashes of total devastation. The memory of seeking refuge under a bridge amidst the rubble and cries for help became the foundation upon which he built a life dedicated to the preservation of human dignity through the photographic me…
