Dae Soo Kim lives and works in Paris and Seoul. He has worked with one of the oldest photographic techniques using an analog camera for over 40 years. His works have focused on the deep and sacred relationship between man and nature through the sensitivities and uniqueness of bamboo forests since 1998. His subsequent ‘Bamboo Forest Series’ captures the spirit of accountability, perseverance, and harmony in life. Kim examines these motifs frontally, goes up-close, chooses sections, works with oblique viewing angles, and thus presents the uniqueness of the bamboo plant in black and white films. Bamboo stalks are photographed up close, and like x-rays are lit up to reveal stark contrasts and completely deep darkness. The Bamboos as a result are depicted as an impenetrable forest.
Dae Soo Kim's father was a first-generation advertising photographer, Kim Han-yong, who first introduced the color development system in Korea by running an advertising photography studio in Chungmuro. Dae Soo Kim came into contact with photography while helping his father's darkroom work as a child. After graduating from the Department of Applied Art at Hongik University, he studied photography at Parsons School of Design and Fret University in the United States.
Dae Soo Kim has had numerous solo exhibitions , including "Dae Soo Kim" at Gallery Artuser in Seoul Korea; "Sky Land and Manscape" at Lucida Gallery in Jinju, Korea; "Dae Soo Kim Photography" at Francoise Livinec in Paris, France; "New Wave in Korean Photography" at GoEun Museum of Photography in Busan, Korea; "Listen to the Bamboos" at Glaerie Eulenspiegel in Basel, Switzerland; and many more. Kim's works were exhibited internationally at museums and galleries for group shows, including Gallerie PJ in Metz, France; Galerie Eulenspiegel in Basel, Switzerland; Chateau de Dampierre sur Boutonne in France, Waterfall gallery in New York, USA; National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul, Korea; The American Club in Singapore; Galelie Dorothea in Mainz, Germany; and Hong Kong Convention Center in Hong Kong to name a few.
