"Who I am, why I exist in life.
My photography is a mirror of my inner self. I take photos of the things I experience and express my feelings and emotion with colors and characters. I started to draw and make notes of my emotions in daily life. It is not fantasy or imagination, it is my emotions and feelings in real life that I think people can sympathize with as we are human beings. I think it is best to boldly exclude miscellaneous things and simply express the core that I want to show in pictures.
So, I am still discovering myself through photography and always interested in human feelings and mainly expressing relationships between people. I want my photography to embody contradictory emotions such as loneliness and warmth."
Rala Choi
Rala Choi is a photographer, whose vivid, ethereal images draw on the legacies of art history. Through a colour palate saturated with a painterly quality, Rala Choi's photographs create expressive depictions of our inner worlds and relationships.
Following a successful few years in which Choi has had two sold-out solo shows in Seoul, the South Korean photographer was recently awarded the Grand Prix at the 37th International Festival of Fashion, Photography and Accessories, Hyères, which was exhibited at the Villa Noailles in 2022.