The Space Where the Hands of Joseon Shipbuilding Workers Have Stopped... 'Art' Arrives There

2020 Busan International Photo Festival (BIPF) Held at Old Shipyard in Yeongdo-gu
Free Admission from 9 AM to 5 PM, September 19 to October 18

Inside Geo-cheong Shipyard in Yeongdo-gu, where the Busan International Photo Festival is held.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Yong-woo] The former shipyard site is being transformed into a beautiful ‘Hwarang’.

The stage for the ‘2020 Busan International Photo Festival’ held by the seaside with a panoramic view of Busan Harbor Bridge and Busan Port is currently a closed shipyard that has vacated its welding equipment.

The Busan International Photo Festival (BIPF) Organizing Committee will hold an exhibition at Geo-cheong Shipyard in Yeongdo-gu, Busan, for one month from the 19th of this month to the 18th of next month.

Geo-cheong Shipyard, where shipbuilding has now stopped, is being utilized as a unique exhibition space that takes advantage of its facilities facing the sea, allowing visitors to appreciate works with Busan Port as the backdrop.

Hosted by the Busan Art Photographers Association and sponsored by Busan City, the City Council, and Yeongdo-gu, this exhibition features numerous works that record and explore the changing Earth due to climate change and environmental destruction through the eyes of photographers.

As the main exhibition, about 100 invited works by five photographers active in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East (Iran, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Korea, France, China) will be displayed, capturing scenes of life destroyed by climate change and the consumer culture of modern civilization.

In addition, there will be a foreign photographers’ invitational exhibition, free exhibitions (individual and group exhibitions), a special exhibition (wetland environment), an invitational exhibition of artists (Busan artists Son Daegwang and Yoon Giljung), youth exhibitions (domestic and foreign), student contests, and Yeongdo contests.

On September 20, a seminar on the theme of the climate crisis will be held for this exhibition, and on September 27, a dialogue session with artist Son Daegwang will take place.

Also, the BIPF Photobook Show, participated in by 11 photobook publishers, will be held during the exhibition period, allowing visitors to enjoy a variety of uniquely styled photobooks in one place.

An organizing committee official said, “At the opening ceremony on the 19th, we will sign a memorandum of understanding for long-term development of the ‘Photo Festival’ with Ganghwa Co., Ltd. (General Representative Kwak Eun-ah), a Chinese-invested company and the second-largest shareholder of Haeundae LCT,” adding, “To establish the photo festival as a representative event of Busan, a Northeast Asian cultural tourism city, we will directly participate in the free exhibition this time and promote qualitative and quantitative development based on the cooperation of sponsors such as ‘Ganghwa’s’ Korea-China exchange network.”

The organizing committee plans to strictly adhere to quarantine rules to ensure safe viewing despite COVID-19. Admission is free.

This content was produced with the assistance of AI translation services.