For BAK Hyongryol, photography is more than documentation—it is a conceptual and visual language. His series Cross Section of a Mountain traces mountains cut away by human development, revealing the scars left on nature.
While researching land reclamation in southwestern Gyeonggi Province, he observed how mountains were dismantled and their soil transported to expand land, prompting a reflection on how development reshapes and erases nature. Using satellite imagery, BAK carved the outlines of severed mountains into the earth and photographed them from above. Through this process, he visualizes absence as presence, inviting viewers to reconsider their relationship with the natural world.
