Eunju Lee is a photographer from South Korea. Residual Time, by Korean photographer Eunju Lee, won 1st Place in Fine Art Still Life at the 2026 International Photography Awards.

The work began with dismantling discarded delivery boxes. In an era defined by delivery services, sorting cardboard has become routine; as she tore the boxes apart, Lee reflected on the quiet loneliness of objects that had fulfilled their purpose, and on the unexpected beauty in what is no longer useful. Creases, torn surfaces and compressed corners retain traces of time.

Read in Luminaries: Cardboard, Blossom and the Flow of Time

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