Sam Sung Woo Choi (최성우)
Sam Sung Woo Choi(b.1996) is a photographer and artist based in Seoul. Choi graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Visual Art at Columbia University in 2022. His work consists mainly of self portraits taken with black and white film and printed through analog darkroom printing processes. Choi puts himself as the subject of his work while maintaining distance and anonymity in his self portraits to ask the viewers questions about trauma and the subsequent journey of healing pertaining to sexual orientation, displacement, and alienation. Choi asks the audience if they can find different selves within them that had been displaced in society that exists like an old memory or a ghost that is rarely seen but deeply felt.