ⓒ Simon Bond

What if it was all just a dream?

It could be said that all our lives we live inside a bubble, indeed how many of us really see the bigger picture? Having lived in South Korea for the last 3 ½ years sometimes I pause to think about how far I am from home, and perhaps any moment I will wake up from my dream. Living in another country allows one to see a little more of the picture, and also to live a dream (I always wanted to live a part of my life in Asia).

The idea of this project, which is still ongoing, is to capture the daily scene everyone sees around Korea and Asia inside a glass ball. I have found by focusing a scene inside the ball and blurring out the background I’m able to contrast reality with what is beyond reality. I feel it is then for the viewer to interpret for themselves what lies beyond the reality of a scene. In varying the composition and how prominent the glass ball is within the scene I wanted to vary how much the person thinks about the reality of life, and the messy less defined interpretations of what if anything is beyond this. In some photos the ball is held by myself or another person, in this I want to show that other people and organisations have a direct influence on our everyday lives.

In addition to using a glass ball some of these photos were taken using drinking glasses. The photos I have taken here are all refraction, an effect that inverses the image you see with a glass object. When I take these photos they are “upside down”, so I correct this by flipping the image during post processing.


Simon Bond
Alternative_si@hotmail.com
www.369photography.co.uk

Simon Bond has been interested in photography since his youth, and studied it for 2 years while at school. He arrived in Korea from the UK more than 3 years ago, and it has been since then that he has developed a real passion for photography. In the last year his work has been published numerous times in both the UK and in South Korea. The American company Getty images, for whom he now submits images, has also noticed his work.

*Exhibition Period: March 6th – March 27th
*Opening with Artist Talk: March 6th, Saturday at 2:30pm at the GAIA Gallery, GIC


Contact) Jihyun KIM (gwangjuic@gmail.com, 062)226-2733/4)