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<Photo taken with iPhone SE; Tool Used: ‘Adobe Photoshop’>
The photo was taken in Seoul at six in the morning on the day I arrived back in Korea from the United States in 2022. When I walk around my town, it seems like numerous signboards on the street are trying to expose themselves with splendor, attracting the attention of people. However, the truth is, I felt the emptiness of the city with a cold stillness inside. As I felt both the splendor and emptiness in the city street, I decided to show the contrast in the original photo (the left side of the photo) and the photo (the right side of the photo) that I edited by erasing all signs on the signboards of markets on the street. The original photo reflects the splendor while the edited photo reflects the city’s emptiness with cold stillness.