Tree Portraits by Myoung Ho Lee

Myoung Ho Lee separates subjects from their original circumstances to derange the difference between subject and image. His work reveals nature by twists and turns, a little fabrication and optical illusion.

Myoung Ho Lee enacts his works as ‘a series of discourses on deconstruction in the photography-act’.

His works are largely composed by following four procedures:

1. Selection of The Subject 
2. Separation of The Subject (meta-subject)  
3. Photographing  
4. Confirmation of The Separation

First, look at the procedure 2: separating the subject from its environmental condition artificially. By setting a big white fabric vertically behind the chosen subject, he makes the subject appear neutral from its original context. The object becomes a ‘separated object’, an ‘ambiguous subject’ and a ‘meta-subject’.

The challenge of the ‘Photography-Act’ is deep. Because ‘Photography-Act’ is not a real subject but a decontextualized and isolated variant from the subject, it is a real subject and non-subject simultaneously.

Procedure 4 confirms the creation of identical chaos to the ‘Photography-Act’ itself by this separation and decontextualization.