INYEON

WORK IN PROGRESS​

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Inyeon (인연) is a Korean word used to describe connections between people that feel deeper than coincidence. Rooted in Buddhist thought, it suggests that some relationships are shaped long before we fully understand them - carried through time, memory, and shared experience.

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This series began as a way of looking more closely at the relationship between Aram Tanis and his son. Through the process of making these photographs, Tanis became increasingly aware of the small moments that often pass unnoticed: familiar gestures, shared routines, moments of distance and closeness, and the quiet ways we mirror one another over time.

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The images were made slowly and intuitively, without a fixed narrative. Rooted in everyday life and time spent together, they move away from documenting specific moments and instead focus on presence itself.

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While the work comes from a personal place, it also speaks to a more universal experience: the evolving bond between parent and child. Through the idea of Inyeon, the relationship between father and son is understood as something enduring yet difficult to fully explain - a connection shaped quietly over time through shared life, memory, and closeness.