Background
Bae was born in Yeosu, Jeollanam-do in 1950, and graduated from Hongik University"s College of Arts in 1974 and the graduate school of the same university in 1976.
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Bae Bien-u
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Education
Hongik University.
Career
He is a professor in Seoul National University"s Department of Photography. Renowned as a professional photographer with themes especially concentrated on pine trees, he has become a representative photographer with the reputation of capturing the characteristic sentiments of of Korea including the pine trees, oceans and mountains with his camera rather than a brush. He became better-known outside of South of Korea after selling one of his pine tree photographs to English singer Elton John in 2005.
Former South Korean president Lee Myung-bak later gave a collection of Bae"s pine tree photographs to United States. president Barack Obama during a summit held in Washington.
He served as professor of the Department of Photography at the College of Arts of Seoul National University. To live in a thickly forested mountain (청산에 살어리랏다), 2005,
Changdeokgung (창덕궁), 2009.
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South of Korea