List of photobooks by photographer Lee, Jungjin

Jungjin Lee (born 1961) is a Korean photographer and artist. She studied calligraphy in childhood and majored in ceramics at Hongik University in 1984. After graduating Lee worked as a photo journalist and later as a freelance photographer.

Photo: ©St. Moritz Art Masters

In 1987, she immersed herself for one year in a project focused on documenting the life of an old man who made his living hunting for wild ginseng. This experience motivated Lee to become a photographer and expand her technical knowledge of photography by traveling to New York and enrolling in New York University to pursue an MA in photography. While in New York, Lee worked for the iconic photographer Robert Frank whose famous travels across the United States may have influenced Lee’s own decision to take a road trip across the United States.

In her travels she encountered the American Desert, a landscape that she is deeply moved by and which becomes the subject of several of her photographic series, including Desert (1990–94), American Desert I – IV (1990-1996), On Road (2000–01), Wind (2004-07) and Remains (2012 - ). Lee photographs these barren landscapes when they are transformed by the tumultuous weather, discarded refuse, decaying structures and by her own photographic process.

Lee currently lives and works in New York City.

Publications:

2017 Desert, Radius Books, NM
2017 Opening, Nazraeli Press, CA
2016 Everglades, Nazraeli Press, CA
2016 Echo, Fotomuseum Winterthur/Spector Books, Switzerland
2014 Unnamed Road, MACK Publications, UK
2014  Thing, Shinsegae Gallery, Seoul
2009  Wind, Aperture, New York
2006  Jungjin Lee, Yelwha-Dang Art Publications, Seoul
2005 Thing, Minseogak Publications, Seoul
2002 Desert/Jungjin Lee, Sepia International Inc. New York
2001  On Road/Ocean, Sepia International Inc. New York/Kukje Gallery, Seoul
2000 Jungjin Lee: Beyond Photography, Shigak Publications, Seoul
1997  Wasteland, Art Space Seoul
1996  Dissolving Landscapes, Wesleyan University, Connecticut
1993  The American Desert, Shigak Publications, Seoul
1988  A Lonely Cabin in a Far Away Island, Yelwha-Dang Art Publications, Seoul