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CONTENTS SEUNG HOON PARK
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ABBA RICHMAN 19
FABRICE SILLY
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SEEING IS BELIEVING 74 By Ellen Keith
ESTELLE CHOE CHROMA HIGHLIGHT Cristina Venedict
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MICHELLE WARD
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BACKSTAGE CHRIS KOVACS Editor
Publisher: Chris Kovacs, Floze Press
SANDRA DJAK KOVACS Executive Editor
Email: chriskovacs@adorechroma.com
TIM ANDERSON Editor at Large LESLIE HILTS Editor at Large ELLEN KEITH Contributor
Online: adorechroma.com
Adore Chroma Magazine 1202 West Pender Street PO Box 17514 Vancouver, BC V6E 2S8 Adore Chroma online magazine is published bimonthly. All images are Š copyright of their respective artists and may not be copied or distributed. All rights reserved.
ISSN 2292-762X
Editor’s Notes Welcome to Adore Chroma, we are excited to bring you our first issue! Chroma is all about colour. When you go to paint your walls you generally choose a colour that compliments how you want to feel in a certain room, warm tones for the bedroom are a natural choice. Or maybe not. I can still remember the day I came home from work to find that my husband had painted our washroom walls the deepest shade of red. It depends upon the person, just like colour photography depends upon the photographer. Our Chroma Highlight features the unique world of Cristina Venedict’s digital brush and with this brush she tells us that “I want to encourage people to dream.” And she does so, with vivid fairy tale like scenes where the viewer is easily drawn in, and never wants to leave. Abba Richman draws our eye towards the everyday beauty that literally hangs from clotheslines, bikes and windowsills, who knew there was such a kaleidoscope of colour drying in the wind. Seung Hoon Park presents us with a pixel and puzzle like image that appears whole in the viewing of it but is ultimately created through the combination of many images taken of the same place from
different angles. The result is an experience where the viewer can enter the image from any space on the print, each window drawing you in to a different perspective. Estelle Choe presents vibrant images that challenge us to think about our relationships with food, stuff and technology. Fabrice Silly creates shimmering realities of a world in motion where lights and buildings gleam. Michelle Ward travels out to the gems of forgotten buildings where broken pianos pose with grace and chairs sit empty telling the camera the colourful stories of the life they once lived. This is our world, in colour and captured by the brush of varied inspiration. We hope you enjoy your time as you go through these pages. They were created for you to be inspired, surprised and compelled to look at your world through a different lens from time to time. So...Dim the lights, go to your favourite place, sit back, relax and enjoy. Sandra Djak Kovacs
Image by Cristina Venedict
ON THE COVER
CRISTINA VENEDICT
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FEATURED SEUNG HOON PARK
“I interlace film in a similar way to weaving fabric to create a single image.”
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TEXTUS Interview with Seung Hoon Park AC: Please introduce yourself. Where are you from?
all over the world. During my travels I began to take photographs of the various places I had visited.
SHP: My name is Seung Hoon Park, I am from Seoul, Korea. AC: Please tell us about your project TEXTUS and what inspired you to create this body of AC: How did you become interested in work. photography?
 SHP: In my project TEXTUS, I interlace film SHP: Before I started photography my backin a similar way to weaving fabric to create a ground was in tourism, I was in my twenties at single image. I photograph an object several the time and was fortunate to be able to travel times by putting 16mm movie films on an 8x10
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camera, I photograph some horizontally and interiors of buildings such as libraries, museothers vertically and then weave them into one ums, music halls and old shops. image. AC: What or who are your influences? Currently I’m working on the TEXTUS (Travel Log) series. This series will be geared towards SHP: Traveling and watching movies are quite reminding people of their past travels. important to me, and my favourite artists are Hiroshi Sugimoto, Candida Hofer and David AC: Where are some of the places you would Hockney, they have been very inspirational. like to photograph that you haven’t yet had the chance to? AC: Do you have any projects planned in the near future? SHP: I recently became interested in photographing interiors. I’m planning to shoot the SHP: I’m going to photograph New York for a month beginning in April, 2014.
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AC: How has your life changed due to your recent success? SHP: I’m happy to have the attention of a much larger audience. Nothing much has changed except for that. AC: What is your final say? SHP: Supporters of my works are extremely important to me. They encourage me to work hard and I am very thankful for them. ♼
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See more work at:
susanspiritusgallery.com/artist/seung-hoon-park/
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