IT’S 3AM, SEOUL IS MOSTLY ASLEEP (2025)

In his series After Dark, Yip draws from his personal experience with CPTSD, offering a visual meditation on the early stages of healing. Created during solitary midnight walks through Seoul and Tokyo, the series traces the intimate and often chaotic process of reconnecting with oneself and the world.

Yip seeks out and photographs flowers as living metaphors for emotion. He approaches them meditatively, using direct flash to draw them out from the darkness, their fragile forms suspended between visibility and disappearance. At times, they appear sharp and luminous, almost confrontational; at others, they blur, fade, or dissolve entirely.

Through this process, Yip explores how emotions shift and reshape themselves, how clarity can suddenly collapse into confusion, and how both are part of the same movement toward healing.