“He photographed people who stay at Starbucks with the choice that the cafes should be important places in contemporary culture. People who visit there with different intentions but same place visually look different and similar simultaneously. The tattoo of the word ‘Forget me not’, coffee cups, mobile phones, earphones, tangled lines, like these repeated elements explore between relationships and isolation.”
-Author’s note- Isolation is the title of this photographic series. I got this title from the basketball game, which is used when one player breakthroughs relying on only his or her skill without passing the ball to other team members. I felt like that was our portrait. Individual boundaries got narrowed and uniformed. It is a well-organized order because of the strong national system and ultra-high technological civilization. In that situation, cafes were necessary places for us. I realized that I didn’t need to generate an art myself because that was already there. It is the reality that all the people are together but alone simultaneously.
