LEE, Jungjin

About the photographer Jungjin LEE (b.1961)

Jungjin LEE is a Korean photographer who studied at Hongik University, graduating with a Bachelor’s of Fine Art in 1984. After graduating she worked as a photo journalist and later as a freelance photographer. She went to New York where she worked for the Robert FRANK. Her photographic practice is important within the context of contemporary Korean photography, but also more broadly she is part of a contemporary photographic movement of photographers pushing the physical boundaries of photography as a medium to expose and communicate the essence of a subject. Effacing the technological capabilities of her camera allows her to explore the symbolic boundaries of landscape as a genre. Jungjin LEE works and lives in New York City.

Photo books by Jungjin LEE (a selection)

'The American Deserts' (1993); 'Wasteland' (1997); 'On Road/Ocean' (2001); .'Desert' (2002, 2018); .'Thing' (2005); 'Wind' (2009); Unnamed Road' (2014); 'Everglades' (2016); 'Echo' (2016); 'Opening' (2018)