Desert - signed

Radius Book

188 pages 

254 × 356 mm

Signed 

2002

In this body of work produced over five years in the early 1990s, Jungjin captures the vast American Southwest and transforms it with liquid light and diluted light-sensitive emulsions to create images that are as uncontrollable and natural as the landscape she depicts. 

Desert comprises four series of works (each bound as a separate book and presented in a unique slipcase), all of which contain monochromatic images of arid lands. Stratigraphy etched into rock faces, massive stones, cave-like precipices, and anthropomorphic fauna showcase an extensive compendium of the desert’s many faces and textures. 

Jungjin Lee majored in crafts at university and taught herself photography before working as a photojournalist for the magazine *Deep-Rooted Tree* (*Ppurigipeun Namu*).

She moved to the United States in 1988 and earned a graduate degree in photography from New York University; since then, she has maintained an active career, working between the U.S. and Korea for over three decades.

In 2011, she participated as the only Asian artist in *This Place*—an Israel-based project led by documentary photography master Frédéric Brenner, who invited twelve world-renowned photographers, including Stephen Shore and Jeff Wall—and presented the series *Unnamed Road*, garnering significant international attention. 

Her work is held in the collections of prestigious institutions worldwide, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, and the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea. Her major monographs include *Wind* (SEPIA INTERNATIONAL INC, 2009), *Unnamed Road* (MACK, 2014), *Everglades* (NAZRAELI PRESS, 2016), *Opening* (NAZRAELI PRESS, 2017), and *Desert* (RADIUS BOOKS, 2017).