Opening - signed

194 × 388 mm

56 pages

28 duotone plates

ISBN 978-1-59005-470-3

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Opening by Jungjin Lee it's about desert landscapes she loves—in Arizona, New Mexico, and Canada. The stark, inhospitable nature of these solitary, often arid places has fascinated her since her first journeys into the deserts of the American West.

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. I

n 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).