In the present day, we have shifted to an Internet society where it appears that you can be connected the world instantly. “The relationship between human existence, place and identity” has become a common human theme.

I lived in London from 2005-2006 and got to know people with various views of the world, and I began to photograph the people who live there, in their own rooms. I had them sit on a chair and face diagonally. Through this method, I made a “rule” where I chose their line of sight.
Subsequently these images can be compared. I shot over 100 portraits.

An emotional gray area between “freedom and captivity” appears in the room where an immigrant lives. The image seems like a shell of that internal state when I photograph the room and the person in such relation.

In the world of “Zen”, the theory of “no captivity” is “no mind”, which in brief means it occurs when in the state of thinking and seeing nothing; in the ultimate state, it brings self-discovery. “Zen” is the repeated dialogue with the spirit which renews the relationship between “Self” and the world that surrounds oneself through meditation. I had experience in the ascetic training of “Zen” a few times, which involved facing “Self Identity” which is a concept maintained in a persons heart. “I am someone and what should I do?” is what overlaps with a the common theme of Self Identity.

“Zen” did not originally have a doctrine or dogma. In other words, there is a direct approach to essence beyond words through the ascetic practices of contemplation without putting trust on words and scripture.
Photographs also have the potential to capture that which is ordinarily hidden in concrete objects, it is the act of photographing itself, which uncovers or reveals essence.