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BOB KIM
The Envisioned Landscape 
Bob Kim captures the essence of everpresent
natural beauty and our primordial connection to it.
He creates images that transcend the limits of camera
and film, a vision of nature’s panoramic grandeur, timeless and
unspoiled.
His artistry is a unique combination of the camera’s
eye and the mind’s envision. It is his original method of mixing
classic painting techniques and traditional fine art photography and
latest digital tools that gives physical presence as well as emotionally
dramatic lighting, greater range of color fidelity and extraordinary
details.
Kim's rendition of Hedrick pond in Wyoming is the
product of over two hundred photographs, edited down to thirty images
taken in a two-week period from five different viewpoints of the park.
It took him over a month to create the final composite image, a result
of extensive color correction, dodging, burning, and masking.
His prints are richly color saturated, vividly sharp,
and showing great detail. All his prints are created using direct digital
enlarger and modern substrates such as Fuji Crystal Archive and Ilfordchrome
Classic. These quality archival fine art prints are made to last for
generations. All Bob Kim’s prints are individually created, carefully
analyzed, signed, and numbered as limited editions of four hundred.
Bob Kim photographs throughout the Western United
States and Canada.
BIOGRAPHY
Bob Kim was born in Seoul, Korea in 1961, and moved
to the United States with his family in 1975. He studied fine arts and
photography at the Maryland Institute of College of Art in Maryland,
graduating with a Bachelor Degree in Fine Arts in 1983.
He began working in offset printing circa 1984, using
both traditional color-etching and digital prepress processes. Through
his work in this field he has become proficient in color management,
tonal reproduction, and photographic processes. As an art director,
he has had firsthand contact with examples of the finest photography
and printing in the world. With expert knowledge of color correction
and image editing in hand, he began applying digital imaging techniques
to his photography.
His international achievements include two Grand
Prize awards at the Hasselblad Austrian Super Circuit 2000, 2001.
Kim’s portfolio has been published in “Photography
& Imaging Yearbook 2002”, a prestigious and historical photo
art book since 1935, his work has been chosen as one of six photographers
from around the world.
Major one man show scheduled in Nov. 2005 in Traun,
Austria
at Trierenberg Holding Gallery.
Kim's work is featured in many national and international
publications, private and corporate art collections throughout the Northwest
United States and Europe and has been shown at numerous exhibitions
throughout the Northwest, as well as in Europe and Asia.
Bob Kim lives in Washington state with his wife,
Ock, his son, Solomon and baby girl, Linz.
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