Tim Franco is a French-Polish photographer working in Asia. After living in Shnagai, China, for 10 years, he moved in 2016 to South Korea.
His long-term documentary work and reportage work have been published in many publications and among others in the New York Times, Geo, The National Geographic, Time Magazine and French magazine 6 Mois.
In 2021, he published "Unperson" with Magenta Foundation, a long-term project about North Korean defectors in South Korea.
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Presentation by Magenta Foundation: " Unperson is one of the first photo books of North Korean defectors. The 15 intimate portraits and the stories of the brave people who decided to take that chance to flee to South Korea. The road to South Korea is dangerous and can take years with the many different borders of Mongolia, Laos, Thailand and China. The...