Korean inventor, entrepreneur, and artist Ahae took one million photographs over a two-year period, through one window in his house in South Korea. With utmost honesty and simplicity, Ahae creates images without artificial lighting or postproduction digital manipulation. The result is a vast body of work of profound intimacy and infinite richness, capturing the subtle changes of the photographer's natural environment through the circle of the seasons. Scenes pastoral and comic, dramatic and tragic, dynamic and serene, enchanting and breathtakingly beautiful are revealed through his lens. With introductions from the director of the Louvre, the former director of Prague's National Gallery, and the director of the Institute of Contemporary Art in Moscow, and featuring poetic texts by the photographer, this beautiful hardcover volume of inspiring imagery is presented in a luxury slipcase. Foreword Henri Loyrette, Director, Louvre Museum, Paris "There are times in our lives when serendipity accelerates events and the exceptional can occur. In September last year I sat next to the guest of a mutual friend at a lunch in Malaysia. He told me about an artist who had created a grand experiment, taking one million photographs in two years. What is more remarkable than this unprecedented feat is that the photographs were taken, and continue to be taken, from a single window. The photographer Ahae (a name which means ?child? in ancient Korean) has faithfully captured his vision of a landscape carefully preserved and protected for the last two decades. He invites us to see the extraordinary in the apparently ordinary. A change in light or a change in the weather can make an object appear quite different. The same water surface can resemble rock or a pool of mercury, the silhouette of a bird caught in the sunlight like a delicate drawing..." SELLING POINTS: Hardcover in a luxury slipcase ILLUSTRATION: 150 Plates
