Lee Gap-chul’s photography begins by dismantling the aesthetics of “stillness in motion.” Rather than staring at a static subject, his lens tracks the raw and persistent flow of Qi (vital energy) that courses through the veins of the Korean people. His seminal series, “Conflict and Reaction,” documented over several decades since the 1980s, stands as

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