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South Korea Week: Sung Nam Hun: The Rustling Whispers of the Wind
©Sung Nam Hun_Shrine, Seogwipo-si, Jeju-do_2020
Sung Nam Hun is one of Korea’s most representative documentary photographers.
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South Korea Week: Yang JaeMoon: Blue Journey
©Yang Jaemoon_Blue Journey_1994
The spirit of a nation is often intangible, yet it breathes through the tangible forms of its culture—its food, architecture, and most vividly, its cloth
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South Korea Week: Lee Gap-Chul: Conflict and Reaction
©Lee Gap-Chul_Conflict and Reaction, Baby on his mothers’s back_1998
Lee Gap-chul’s photography begins by dismantling the aesthetics of “stillness in motion.
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South Korea Week: Yi Wan Gyo: Nirvana-Beyond Dark
© Yi Wan Gyo, Nirvana
My personal memory of artist Yi Wan Gyo, whom I am introducing today, holds a truly special place in my heart.
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South Korea Week: Han ChungShik: Goyo
©Han Chungshik, The Emptiness is open, Hongche_2008
The 21st century has undeniably been an era where the world has fallen in love with Korean culture and history, from the global phenome
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Sunjoo Lee: Untold
©Sunjoo Lee Untold baby shoes_ 2025
I have always admired Sunjoo Lee’s quiet, ephemeral, and mysterious still lifes that use cultural and personal elements to consider time, memory,
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South Korea Week: Park Youngsook: Mad Women’s Project
© Park Youngsook, Mad Women’s #1, 1999
“Flowers are a symbol of women, a normative cultural manifestation.
Beautiful.
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South Korea Week: Sunmin Lee: Women’s House
©Sunmin Lee, at Jayoon’s place from Woman’s House 1, 1999
Throughout human civilization, the role of women in society and the issues related to women’s livelihood are, without a
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South Korea Week: Woo, Young: Show Window
© Woo, Young, Show window #4 Olivia Hassler, 2018
“The world reflected from the inside of a show window is more monotonous than it may seem.
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South Korea Week: Ahn Jun: On Gravity
© Ahn Jun, One life
“Two forces rule the universe- light and gravity.
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South Korea Week: Hwang Yezoi: Those With Worms
© Hwang Yezoi, Eye, 2019
Arts and culture movements develop as various societal forces ranging from economic to religious demands come together to invoke existing norms and value systems
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Focus on Still Life: Sunjoo Lee
©Sunjoo Lee, Untitled Bojagi 1
The genre of Still Life can reveal a myriad of layers, allowing the creator to share secrets, personal traditions, and ways of being.











