Gallery Post

2011, Snowy Day

My daily photographs

Daily life, to me, means discovering that everything can be beautiful.

After I finished my first photo exhibition with my classmates at Sangsang Madang, I began to look at daily life more carefully. The exhibition helped me recognize that each person sees the world differently, and that accepting those different perspectives can make ordinary moments feel more precious.

Because of that, the daily photographs from 2011 are especially meaningful to me. They were taken during a time when I was learning to value the small scenes around me, not as simple records, but as moments that belonged to my life.

A snowy day makes that feeling even clearer. Snow changes familiar streets into something quiet and unfamiliar. Ordinary places become softer, slower, and more fragile. Perhaps that is why these photographs remain precious to me.

Each time I pressed the shutter, I felt as if I was taking one more step forward. These images are not only photographs of daily life. They are traces of the way I was learning to see, remember, and move through my own life.

These photographs were taken by Hyunhwan Aiden Lee in 2011.