Introduction
Exile Pattern is a collection of experimental art photos that were snapped during the 2017-18 winter months at Beyokje-dong and Chunjgu in South Korea.
Since I came to Korea in 2014, as a foreigner who was born & grow-up in a tropical country and moved to this contrastive weather, I was badly affected by the winter weather; however, the 2017/18 winter was an amazing experience which I never thought I’d have in my life.
The winter months weren’t only filled with extreme cold and gloomy days but indeed with colorful touches as well; actually the winter had its own patterns, texture, and lights and attractions.
I was really lucky been there in days as a firsthand witness to observer the winter has been playing with light, air, water, trees and earth in varieties! Just for the sake of photography, I was privileged having an experimental art with the unique elements in different timing and places to capture the patterns.
Introduction
Bereket Alemayehu
Bereket Alemayehu, a native Ethiopian Photo Patternist who came to Korea in 2014 and now resides in Seoul. He used to work at a local NGO called Music Mayday Ethiopia, which provides a platform for talented young artists in music, dance, theater and drama, photography and video, painting and graphic design. His first photograph was published in 2007 for a newspaper which was published in the U.S. for Ethiopian Diaspora. As an activist for social changes Bereket uses photo artworks and coffee diplomacy in Korea.
