South Korean photographer and artist Yeondoo Jung has embarked on an ambitious project that takes the bright crayon drawings of children and transforms them into photographs with live models portraying the visions of the young artists.
The effort leaves the viewer breathless in its exquisite vibrancy and celebrates the dreams of youth. But there is a bittersweet overall twinge to the transfer of the original artwork to film.
The idealism of that is which lost as one grows older is the subtle message.
There is really no way to describe Yeondoo Jung’s work other than to encourage you to go see it for yourself.
Yukie Kamiya
Associate curator, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York said:
“Jung painstakingly gives photographic form to disembodied dreams, inspiring our sense of wonder and respect for his representation of the terrible freedom of a child’s unbridled ideas or the nascent power of an adolescent’s dreams. The impenetrable borders and the fusion points between reality and fantasy converge smoothly in Jung’s photos, inviting us into a new visual world of emotion and desire.”
Yeondoo Jung’s website with the photographs are here.