Echoed Scenery
Anbuh and Vera Hadzhiyska
Echoed Scenery is a duo photography exhibition by South Korean artist Anbuh and Bulgarian artist Vera Hadzhiyska which brings together photographic works and publications developed through an ongoing international collaboration that explores cultural exchange, memory, and shared visual language between Bulgaria and South Korea.
The exhibition combines existing and new work across two interconnected series —Silent Dialogues and Echoed Scenery. By creating a visual conversation between two distant geographies, the exhibition and publications explore how images might function as a shared language, revealing both difference and unexpected similarity.
The collaboration began in 2024 with Silent Dialogues (shown at Photo Fringe 2024). In 2025 the artists expanded their collaboration through a new photographic exchange titled Echoed Scenery (visible here in the online gallery). Through parallel visual narratives shaped by their everyday surroundings, the artists explore how photography can bridge geographical and cultural distance.
The physical exhibition presents photographic prints alongside a set of three publications, which were designed in collaboration with South Korean writer and publisher Boa Song. The two photobooks - Silent Dialogues and Echoed Scenery – are accompanied by an essay written by Boa Song offering as reflection on the artists’ collaborative methodology and visual exchange.
In a contemporary context shaped by migration, global disruption, and shifting notions of belonging, this project offers a quiet reflection on our shared human experience.
Cover image credit © Jeong-gyun Goh 고정균
Artists
Vera Hadzhiyska
Vera Hadzhiyska is a Bulgarian multi-disciplinary artist, curator and photography lecturer based in Portsmouth, England. Her art practice explores themes of migration, cultural and national identity, history, and collective memory. Vera has a BA and MA degree in Photography from the University of Portsmouth.
Her work has been exhibited internationally and recognised with numerous awards and grants, including the VID Foundation for Photography Award (2020), Arts Council England’s DYCP Grant (2021), Belfast Exposed Future Curators (2023), and British Korean Society Grants (2023 and 2024).
Anbuh
Anbuh is a South Korean artist, curator and director of OUTHOUSE Seoul. He works in various media such as photography, paintings, and video. His artworks examine the relationships of people to society and their environment, which is informed by his experience and investigation of patriarchal views.
He has a BA in Photography from Seoul Institute of Art and MFA Fine Art from Korea National University of the Arts. In 2018 he established OUTHOUSE where he has been curating exhibitions of emerging and established contemporary Korean artists.
Boa Song
Echoed Scenery: In Resonance (Essay)
Boa Song is a London-based writer, editor and director of pink noise press. Her practice moves across text, sound and book-making, approaching the book as both a material form and a site of dialogue.
Since 2023, she has been publishing Invisible Tapestry, bringing together artist conversations and photographic collaborations to explore questions of fluid identity, (de)colonisation and marginalisation. She holds a BA in Music Composition and Korean Literature from Ewha Womans University and an MA in Publishing from the University of the Arts London.
Venue
Eldon Building
Reflectory gallery
Winston Churchil AveSouthsea
Portsmouth
PO1 2DJ
Opening times
Monday 28 September 2026 Thursday 15 October 2026
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Preview Night:
Thursday 1st October, from 4 - 7 pm
