Back was born in 1973 in Taejon, Korea. In 2000 he attended Chungang University in Seoul for his BFA and MFA in photography. Back is well known for his “Real World” series, where he creates a weird fantasy world by composing multiple objects and buildings. Tokyo Art Beat says the world that Back creates “is strange, cynical and distorted.” They explain that “"Real World" is a series of photographs taken in a South Korean theme park that features miniatures of world famous tourist places. Fake architecture and the realistic Seoul landscape coexists there, and the rather calm images evoke an odd sensation and suggest the envy that South Koreans turn towards outside countries.” Besides his Real World series, Back has also made another series titled “Blow Up,” which features enlarged photographs extracted from on original film made in North Korea. Tokyo Art Beat states, “Like sneak shots, the images play skillfully on their viewers' voyeuristic interests. The reality of the country, different from the scene we normally see through sometimes exaggerated media reports, gradually slips out from the blown up images.” Back has had these series exhibited all over the world, from Paris to Seoul.
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