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Silver 2026 Architecture / Industrial

Caught in the Grid

  • Photographer
    Taeyoung Huh
  • Prize
    Silver in Architecture / Industrial

Overhead light casts a rigid grid of shadow across an empty railway platform, its near-perfect symmetry broken only by a single commuter walking toward the stairs.

I am a photographer based in South Korea focused on capturing what I call 'urban impressions.' My work centers on the geometric rhythm of cities — repeating patterns interrupted by a single color or form — and the dramatic interplay of light and shadow cast by their structures. I'm equally drawn to the overlooked and ordinary: quiet spaces and objects that others tend to pass by, an eye that has become something of a signature. I'm also increasingly drawn to capturing people within these scenes, adding a human element to the pattern. My primary genres are architectural/abstract and still life

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