There is a photography work, Still Life tells the life story of a man and a silicone sex doll. The images in the work attracted many media rushing to interview the owner of this work, June Korea.
June Korea is a photographer. He studied for a bachelor's degree in Korea in the early days, and later received a bachelor's degree in photography and videography from the California Art Center College of Design. He then studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York and obtained a master's degree in photography and media.
In 2001, June Korea began to photograph sex dolls and observe their secret lives as they did when they were young. For several years, he has always included sex dolls as part of his photographs. Later, he began to ask himself, "Why should I really photograph sex dolls?"
In 2014, he bought a life size silicone sex doll and named her Eva. 10,000 dollars, she is very expensive. But June Korea revealed in the interview the reason for the initial purchase of Eva: loneliness. Every time he gets home from get off work or party, he always feels very empty and lonely. When he woke up from the bed, he found himself at home alone. Even in the middle of the crowd, he still felt lonely. When June Korea was a child, he naively thought that as long as he worked hard, his family, friends and love would not leave him. However, this is not the case. Leaving, disappearing, death is always with him.
Therefore, June Korea has created an "eternal" world. In this world, the anthropomorphic but inanimate Eva will not leave, disappear or die. When he opened the box containing Eva, their "eternal" world began. After that, he and Eva went shopping, ate, slept, and traveled together. In addition, he also took a lot of photos for Eva, and they will appear together in the frame, like a couple in real life.
In this "eternal" world constructed by June Korea, he hopes that he and the audience who struggle with different types of emotions every day will find more meaning by sharing stories about loneliness in life. His goal is to create the narrative he imagined and transform it into the real world. His hope for his work is that it will become a catalyst, prompting people to remember what people lost and what they believed in.