The Foggy Night


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  • Photographer
    Kyle Kim
  • Prize
    3rd Place / Special/Night Photography
  • Date of Photograph
    2016-2018
  • Technical Info
    Hasselblad 500cm and 80mm lens, Kodak Portra 160 Negative Film
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The Foggy Night is a film-based series of fine art color landscape photographs that focus on the San Francisco Bay Area. He focused on the area where we live at the interface of nature and culture. This body of work is about the uncommon beauty of the urban landscape. The various color and lights appear one by one in the night scenes. It was like being transported into another world. The world moves slower with fog and lots of things disappear into the darkness. Due to the continued transformation, the night lights show a different face with each visit, revealing their strange elegance.

  • Biography
    Kyle Kim is a San Francisco based fine art landscape photographer from Korea who conveys uncommon beauty through his images. The San Francisco Bay Area has great varied landscapes; the explorations of landscape photography were a big part of his life and led to his strong passion for photography. He prefers to observe and understand how the landscape interacts with both emotion and light. As a photographer, he works tirelessly to push beyond the limitations of exposure time and aperture width, in order to shine light into dark places.
  • Awards
    EDUCATION Spring 2018 // Master of Fine Art Photography, Academy of Art University, San Francisco EXHIBITION The Foggy Night: Solo Exhibition. 688 Gallery, Academy of Art University. May-June 2018 CA. 94965 Exhibition: Photography Intensive 2017. 625 Gallery, Academy of Art University. Aug-Sep 2017 Hawaii Photography Exhibition 2017: Isolation. East Hawai'i Cultural Center/HMOCA. June-July 2017 Spring Show 2017. Academy of Art University, 2225 Jerrold Avenue San Francisco, CA 94124. May-June 2017 The Light Factory 9th Juried Annuale. 1817 Central Avenue, Charlotte, NC 28205. Apr-June 2017 Unseen: Photography Beyond the Visible. Providence Center for Photographic Arts. Apr–May 2017 Allegany National Photography Competition and Exhibition. Allegany Arts Council. Apr 2017 Taking Pictures 2017. Black Box Gallery. Apr 2017 Singular/Signature Exhibition. The Center for Fine Art Photography. Mar-Apr 2017 Photowork 2017, Barrett Art Center’s 30th Annual National Juried Photography Exhibition. Barrett Art Center. Jan-Mar 2017 PUBLISHED and PRESS Musée Magazine: Weekend Portfolio: Kyle Kim. Apr 2018 Photographer’s Forum Magazine: 38th Annual College Photography Contest sponsored by FUJIFILM. Feb 2018 Book Cover | Holy Name by Russell Morse: SHAKESPEARE & CO. Dec 2017 FotoFilmic | Media/News Company: FOTOFILMIC17 SPRING SHORTLIST WINNERS. May 2017 Joia Magazine | Fotografía / Audiovisual: Kyle Kim fotografía noches de niebla. May 2017 Vice Magazine | Creators: Fog Is Nature’s Filter in Stunning Nighttime Photos of San Francisco. Apr 2017 AWARDS Night Photography 1st Place Winner: FAPA | Fine Art Photography Awards. Apr 2018 1st Place Color Award: Allegany National Photography Competition and Exhibition. Allegany Arts Council. Apr 2017 Juror’s Honorable Mention Award: Singular/Signature Exhibition, The Center for Fine Art Photography. Mar 2017

Story

The Foggy Night is a film-based series of fine art color landscape photographs that focus on the San Francisco Bay Area and cityscapes exploring lights and houses and other surrounding subjects.

Exploring landscape photographs was a big part of my life and led to my strong passion for photography. I prefer to observe and understand how the landscape interacts with both emotion and light. I started to analyze the structures, spaces (and places) and the systems that shape our lives and our landscapes and I focus on the area where we live at the interface of nature and culture.

This body of work is about the uncommon beauty of the urban landscape on foggy nights. The various color and lights appear one by one in the night scenes. I accidentally stumbled upon these elements, and it was like being transported into another world. The world moves slower with fog and lots of things disappear into the darkness. I realized that night photography was something I wanted to explore and observe.

It is within this landscape that I have found solace and peace within myself as my camera turns to the unusual attractiveness of the night. The fog soaks into the color of the artificial lights, and transforms it. Due to the continued transformation, the night lights never disappoint me as they show a different face with each visit, revealing their strange elegance. As viewers explore the work, I intend for them to experience the unique beauty that is hidden in the night.

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