Birthday Brothers

Project Birthday Brothers is a photographic journey to find people who have the same birthday as the author has. It's an effort to make fraternal connection between the photographer and the subjects regardless of their age, gender, race, et cetera.

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This project is is a photographic journey to find subjects who have the same birthday as the photographer have. It is a series of collecting their portraits and still lives. Its purpose is to meet a various set of people based on unchangeable personal information and to photograph them in order to forge fraternal connections between the subjects and the photographer. Same birthday is a unique set-up to meet various people and situation. The photographer believes this project maximize the surrealistic point of reality when these photographs are displayed with their titles which give information about their same birthday. These portraits also act as the photographer’s various self-portraits. It is an effort to make the deepest personal images that she can take, to reflect herself through them, and to realize herself. This project not only includes the portraits but also still lives of subjects’ memorable birthday presents that is received in the past, or cakes which the photographer prepared for their coming birthday. These products play a role as a visual bridge between them(portraits) and their birthday(cakes), or them(subjects) and her(photographer), or even pasts(last birthdays) and futures(coming birthdays). The artist believes it is the largest image-world that she could personally imagine and own. In the end of this project, there is a plan to invite every ‘birthday brothers’ to a grand birthday party and take a group portrait. The photographer hope this last photograph could suggest a brand new aesthetics to viewers. Through people whose age is exactly 365 days apart, she expect that every ages of her ego are going to be found. Viewers could reminisce the past from younger subjects, and imagine the future from older subjects. After that, it is about equality regardless of not only age but also gender, nationality, etc, as the artist is going to expand this image-world as broad as possible till she die.

BIOGRAPHY

Hayun Chun(b.1998) majored Product Design and graduated BFA at Hongik University in 2021. During the college life, she have devoted passion and time to photography by combining with her major and continuing personal work. She participated in the Seoul Art Book Fair Unlimited Edition(2020) and published her first photography book good goods independently. With this opportunity, she focused on exploring the relationship between 3Ps ― people, products and photographs, continuing work such as tutti frutti, Birthday Brothers, and Pigeon Phobia. And her recent work (and also first Ai image project) /imagine prompt: a swimming pool for artist has received portfolio review at VOSTOK PRESS and whatreallymatters(Mapogu design·publish center) through the program <2023 docking!>. The same project will be displayed at CICA Museum in 2024.