Kyungmin kate Lee

PLAYGROUND is a photographic series examining diasporic life through the shifting thresholds of visibility and invisibility—what is shown, and what remains internal. Working across analog and digital processes, Kyungmin Kate Lee uses infrared imaging, multiple exposures, and layered color (including channel mixing) to transform everyday scenes into images that hover between documentation and imagination. The playground functions as a social field where relationships and identities take shape. Reframed through immigrant family life, it becomes a transitional space where care, adaptation, and belonging are negotiated in real time. Neon color signals inner possibility; gray grounds register constraint and weight. Through these tensions, PLAYGROUND traces ongoing processes of healing, identity reconstruction, and becoming.