What fantastic images can be created by utilizing the full power of an indifferent mechanical device! The ninth Daegu Photo Biennale highlights the world of “photographic photography,” presenting extraordinary images that can only be produced with a camera, rather than by painting, language, or any other media. To this end, the biennale eschews the grand discourses that have typified so many international exhibitions and cultural events of recent years, relating to politics, the environment, global disasters, diaspora, or minority groups. Instead, the featured works demonstrate the remarkable possibilities for artistic expression that may be realized through the interaction of the three distinct elements of the medium of photography: light, a camera, and a person. In this way, the biennale seeks to revive the amazing power and unique capabilities of photography, which have been somewhat forgotten with the emergence of digital technology and postmodernism in the 1990s, summoning them back to Daegu, the proud home of Korean photography.