“When nature is present we don’t recognize that it’s there. However when it’s gone or changed in some way, only then do we realize that it has been around. In other words, only at the moment of loss are memories restored”
~ Byung Hun Min
I’m in the gallery one day several years ago when the then head of the Department of Photography at the Los Angeles County of Modern Art calls me up and says “Peter, are you in the gallery? Don’t go anywhere. I’m putting in a taxi a photographer from Korea. Prepared to be amazed.”
That was how I first met Mr Min. He didn’t speak a word of English. I didn’t speak a word of Korean. He was with a Korean friend who lived here who spoke some English. But words were unnecessary. His sublime hand crafted silver prints did all the talking. I felt immediately that I was in the presence of someone from another time and place. The exquisite beauty of the images brought me to tears that day and they still do.
