Soyoun Kim
Photographer (Sydney NSW)

I joined the cinematheque study group as the interest of creative media works in Korea. Starting with the big hallucinated eraser head figure and blood squeezing roasted chicken on the dinning table in the movie of David Lynch, full of imaginary visual stories by fascinating directors led me to study filmmaking and television arts in Canada. Back to Korea, tried to continue the study of Media Production and since then, traveled the world which gave me the richness of cultural experience.

Seeking for my own tool, still camera gave me the freedom of the expression. For the passion of the still camera, came to Australia and studied photography. The beauty of hand printing led me to all type of alternative photographic processing including photogravure processing which is the combination of photo processing and etching technique. This has led me to become involved with traditional printmaking works such as silkscreen and etching.

I have been creating portrait and landscape images, mainly sourcing from photographic images and crafting to various printing media including photographic processing. Each different printing medium enable me to add the expression through the processing which complete the portraiture of inner sense affected by the environment and vice versa. I call them myself ‘abstract portraiture & landscape’.

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Awards
2008 Olive Cotton Award for Photographic Portraiture, NSW Australia
2008 Waverley Art Prize, Sydney, Australia
2002 Fuji Photography Contest, Seoul, Korea

Exhibitions
2008.09 ~2009 02 ‘Urban Dreaming’ group exhibition, Toyota community sprit gallery, Caringbah NSW
2008.08~09 Olive Cotton Award for Photographic Portraiture, Tweed River Art Gallery, Murwillumbah NSW
2008.07 Waverley Art Prize Exhibition, Waverley Woollahra Art Centre, Bondi
2008.03  2008 Festival Art Awards Exhibition, Cowra Regional Art Gallery, NSW
2008.01 Group Selection, Gallery 26, Sydney
2007.12 Into Intaglio, Regard gallery, Sydney
2007.11~12  Feather, Fur and Fins, Lorn Gallery,  NSW
2006.05~06 Kodak Photo Salon, CCP, Melbourne
2006.05  Photo Access Members exhibition, Manuka Art Centre, Canberra
2005.12  New Collectable Auction, First Site RMIT Union Gallery, Melbourne
2004.08  Salt Light(Sokumbit) Photo Group Exhibition, Bucheon Boksagol Gallery, Korea
2002  20th Fuji Photo Contest, Seoul, Korea