Seoul International Photography
Festival 2010

Title : CROSS-Intersection of Reality and Unreality
Artists: 50 artists from abroad, 1500 amateur photographer
Date: Dec.01, 2009 -Jan.31 , 2010
Venue: garden 5 , Seoul
Website: www.sipf.or.kr

This year, The Seoul International Photography Festival held its
third show at Garden 5. The 200 works at the show titled,
CROSS-Intersection of Reality and Unreality, aim to grasp the
trends in fine art photography since the advent of the digital
process through the participation of more than 50 artists and
participants from 10 countries.
The festival is divided into two sections. The first part of the
main exhibition is called Tera Emotion. This section features the
combination of Tera-, which implies an unimaginably expanded
figure. It captures a virtualized reality through edited images.
It is a great opportunity to see the creative imagination of
Daniel Lee, Oleg Dou, and Steffen Rault. The second section,
New World or No World, shows works that turn real space into
virtual space. It is worth reading into the narratives that fill up
the space in the works by John Goto, Bettina Hoffmann, and
Giacomo Costa. In addition, there is a special exhibition featur-
ing Alan Bublex¡¯s work, which takes a witty look at the elements
in city life, and the surrealistic photography works by Philippe
Ramette, who presents himself as a photo-sculptor. This exhibi-
tion goes beyond photography as a means of recording a fact,
moving in and out of the boundary between reality and unreali-
ty and reflecting on the significance of photography in our time.


_ Wendy McMurdoHelen, Backstage, Merlin Theatre (The Glance)

_Alain Delorme, MORGANE, Photo digital , 50X33 cm, 2006-7

_Philippe Ramette,Paresse irrationnelle ,2003, color print,
150 x 120 cm photography  Marc DomageCourtesy Galerie Xippas

_Alain Bublex,Plug-in City (2000)-korea2004color print,180 x 180 cm
 Courtesy Galerie GP & N Vallois, Paris

_Bettina Hoffmann, II