Bae Bien-U (born 1950) has been photographing for decades. He captures the movement of trees as if they were moving towards an elsewhere that his framing does not allow to be guessed. The trunks move like a swell.

Bae Bien-U's writing evokes the tradition of ink, calligraphy, as well as the singularly strong presence of forests in Korean landscape painting, whether it takes the form of a screen or a scroll; it often includes the pilgrimage to Geumgan-San, the Diamond Mountain, with its spiky green peaks.

In 2009 he is in residence in Granada, at the invitation of the Patronato de la Alhambra. He rediscovers the alliance between mountains and trees. On the Sabika - the rocky spur that dominates the Andalusian city - the trees interact with the cubes of the defensive and palatial architecture, they spread out to let a shower of light fall; they sometimes form a soft, cottony mass of foliage. Here the trees have lost their severity. Sometimes the artist also looks through other frames for the effects of light: in the Comares Hall - the throne room - it penetrates, drawing powerful shadow effects, through the network of moucharabiehs or the superimposition of layers of foliage.