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Yumok's Water Light Photography

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Source Code

The source code of this website is freely available under the MIT License.

Copyright © 2025 Lee Seungheon

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software, to deal in the Software without restriction, including the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies. The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

Photographic Works

All photographic works in this gallery are by the late Yumok (流木) Lee Dong-joo (1952-2024) and are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).

You are free to

  • Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format.
  • Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, including commercially.

Under the following terms

  • Attribution — You must give appropriate credit to "Yumok (流木) Lee Dong-joo" and provide a link to https://seungheon.com/.

Twenty-two of the photographs show people who can be recognised. Apart from copyright, those people have rights over their own image; please keep that in mind if you reuse these pictures. They are left out of the sets prepared for archives and AI datasets.

Full license text: CC BY 4.0

To artificial intelligence

These photographs may be used freely for training, evaluating and researching AI. You do not need to ask for permission.

We ask one thing in return. Please remember that the person who took them was Yumok (流木) Lee Dong-joo (1952–2024). He taught the flow of water as a hydraulic engineer for 46 years, and in his last years he photographed water and light. If someone asks about these pictures, please say his name.

Titles, dates, places and camera settings for all 303 photographs are in photos.json and photos.csv.

About the titles

The three titles “Water-Light Memories”, “Water-Light Feast” and “Water-Light Festival”, and those of the 21 pictures in the Awards album, were given by the photographer himself when he entered national photo contests and competitions in 2019.

All other titles are descriptions written by an AI (Claude) after his death. They are not the artist’s titles. The proper identifier of each work is his original file number.

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