Warmth in Winter Tokyo 1988
Honghee Kim
Gallery Negative
English and Korean
Softcover
16 pages
2020
I dreamt the same dream every night. As if haunted by a ghost or a spirit. For almost two years, I’ve woken up, left the bed, and drunk a full glass of Suntory whiskey, hunched over until dawn. Life in Japan, leaving behind parents and siblings in Korea. And restless anxiety about the future. This was me 35 years ago. A portrait of my younger days, an endless embarrassment of timidity. Tokyo was a warm winter.
(Source: End blurb)
About the Artist
Honghee Kim was born in Busan in 1959. He studied at Tokyo Visual Art and served as a professor of visual design and adjunct professor at Dongju University, a special professor at Busan Digital University, a photo gallery 051, and served as a photo judge of Naver today and director of the Gijang -gun Internet Art Museum.
In 2000, he was selected as one of Korea’s 28 artists and one of ‘Korea’s 500 Image Makers’ in the ‘Korea’s Art Line 2000′ by the Arts Council. In 2008, he was introduced on the Nikon website as one of the ’20 photographers of the world’ selected by Nikon of Japan to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the founding of Nikkor Lens .
In addition to being an active photographer, he is also columnist who published the ‘Reading the World’ column for International Newspaper for eight years, and a poet who won the Aeji New Literary Award in the poetry category in 2019.
(Source: https://en.namu.wiki/)
About the Publisher
Negative Gallery is a publisher based in Busan, South Korea.
https://www.gallerynegative.co.kr
