Video: Children's drawings in the Yeondoo Jung photo project
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Usually we do not take children's drawing seriously, considering their unpretentious drawings, albeit touching, but still scribbles. And their only connoisseurs, as a rule, are parents or teachers. But Korean photographer Yeondoo Jung decided to show these scribbles to the world, giving them new life and making childhood dreams come true.
Yeondoo Jung's "Wonderland" series of photographs (2005) is a series of images based on children's drawings and reproduced as accurately as possible. For 4 months, the author attended art classes in kindergartens in Seoul, observing the creativity of children from 5 to 7 years old and selecting the images he liked. When 1200 drawings were collected in his collection, the author moved on to the next stage: he chose the brightest and most memorable of them and began to work wonders, turning uneven lines into furniture, and funny little people into real people. For the implementation of his project, Yeondoo Jung resorted to the help of 60 schoolchildren, who played the roles of the heroes of the drawings.
For the successful implementation of the project, the photographer also had to resort to the help of fashion designers, because the requirement to adhere to the maximum correspondence of photographs to drawings presupposed the presence of not quite ordinary clothes. 5 fashion designers worked on the creation of the costumes - probably for the first time they had to create models according to the "sketches" of kindergarteners.
The photographs of the author, despite their apparent simplicity and naivety, awaken warm and kind feelings in the viewer, make them look at the world with different eyes. This project takes each of us back to childhood, to our own fantasies and dreams, free from the restrictions and prohibitions of the adult world.
Yeondoo Jung was born in 1969 in Jinju, South Korea. The photographer now lives and works in Seoul. You can see his other works and learn more about the author's work on the website.
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