Myoung Ho Lee

Myoung Ho Lee, a young artist from South Korea, has produced an elaborate series of photographs that pose some unusual questions about representation, reality, art, environment and seeing.

Simple in concept, complex in execution, he makes us look at a tree in its natural surroundings, but separates the tree artificially from nature by presenting it on an immense white ground, as one would see a painting or photograph on a billboard.

There's another photographer from America that a somewhat series similar to this but with barns and machinery in the midwest. He uses a backdrop and somehow chooses angles to make it seem like something as big as a barn was shot in an indoor studio. I like Myoung Ho Lee's nature elements and how the shot's brought back so that it is more about the separation than it is about the element that is highlighted.