Digital Photography - Street & Portraits

Park investigates the meaning and the power of photography through the lens of the camera by exploring its analog origin in 35 mm film. Using a Leica R6.2 camera with 50 mm f/2 Summicron (prime) lens, as well as a 28-70mm f/3.5-4.5 Vario Elmar-R (zoom) lens, Park captures the beauty of daily life in New York City. Following the footsteps of their favorite photographers, including Vivian Maier and Diane Arbus, Park seeks to discover meaningfulness in the meaninglessness and the special quality of the mundane and the everyday (and vice versa). Abstraction is a key component that Park draws from their training as a painter, and this quality or inclination in the use of light and shadow lends the feeling of unfamiliar and the profound within the typical and the daily.