Eugene Hyon

Many people have described my work as intimate, mysterious, visionary, and evocative.

I chose black & white photography, because it is the medium for articulating for what I believe is the stripped down essence of the physical world around us. So many images we see on a daily basis are driven by a mass media that emphasizes melodrama, violence, destruction, as well as the outrageous and sensational. There is never a reliance on shock value in any of my pictures. As a fine art photographer, it's my desire to show people that the world doesn't have to loom large and menacing. If you look at the world calmly, it's quite beautiful.  There's poignancy in simple things that can be found just around the corner and in places often taken for granted.