Korean photographer working in surrealist themes.

Cho Giseok

“When I was young, I wanted to be an art director,” he explains. “In order to do that, I thought that I could become a better art director if I could do all the fields. So with graphic design, I liked making things by hand, so then I also began to explore set design. After that, I started to work as an art director, and then I started taking pictures naturally, because I wanted to create my own images, and I wanted to work through all these processes.”

Gi Seok Cho's pursuit for beauty - 1854 Photography

“I like the beauty that comes from the harmony of opposites,” he says. “I find old things in flea markets, where accidental things are very good inspiration to me. And on the Internet, I am inspired by various materials and images when the galleries and materials available in Korea are not so diverse.” In his series *Humanoid*, this juxtaposition, of the natural versus digital, is exploited with a series of otherworldly figures. “I thought about what factors would make up a person today,” he explains. “I thought about the surrounding nature and current technologies together, and tried to express these qualities through a human form.”