Travel 3rd place winner

Are we going on vacation, or have we already arrived? A temporary break from what we originally did, a vacation. Isn’t marriage a vacation from being alone? Isn’t illness a vacation from being healthy? For the poet Cheon Sang-byeong, life was already a vacation. Are the living on vacation and the dead at work? Or was there ever an original state to begin with? Is life the original state or is death? Is reality the original state or is it a dream? Is the butterfly Zhuangzi, or is Zhuangzi the butterfly? Or is the butterfly just a butterfly, and Zhuangzi just Zhuangzi? But then, what are the butterfly and Zhuangzi as their original states? So, there is no original state. There is no vacation to begin with. Therefore, we cannot know if we are going on vacation or if we have already arrived. We are either on a vacation of unknown origin or at work with an unknown purpose.

I studied philosophy and art at the University of Bremen and received my PhD in philosophy from the University of Bonn. I have been writing on philosophical issues surrounding artificial intelligence.I am also active as a photographer, having held five solo exhibitions and published two photobooks. I have received thirteen awards and honors in international photography competitions. My work is driven by a deep interest in expressing the worlds and conceptions of humanity that emerge from my imagination through the language of photography.
the 9th Fine Art Photography Awards Nomination(Travel, Series).
2023 Monovisions Photography Awards Nomination(Peaple, Series).
5th Annual Photography Awards Nomimation(Peaple, Documentary).
2025 Fine Art Photography Awards 3rd(Travel, Series).
2025 Tokyo International Photography Awards Honorable Metion(Portpolio, Fine Art)
2025 Tokyo International Photography Awards Gold Winner(Portpolio, Fine Art)
2025 Tokyo International Photography Awards 2rd(Portpolio, Fine Art)