Hardcover, 100 × 115 mm
120 pages
58 quadratone plates
“Making pictures in Israel and Palestine was above all an emotional challenge. My photographs usually deal with something eternal in the landscape, but in this place the layers of history and conflict, fear and hostility, frustrated my camera.
I happened to travel a lot in the West Bank, not for any political purpose, but because I liked the landscape between the cities. I tried to gaze at the land, without prejudice or judgment. I didn’t want to deal with the masks of the people and I didn’t want to put on my own mask. I wanted to see it as the olive tree sees it.
But I felt overwhelmed by the realities around me. I felt sad and uncomfortable much of the time, and I found myself trying to make photographs in a place I didn’t want to be. It was difficult, but looking back, I can see that it forced me to change as an artist and I am grateful for that.
On my final trip, I was able to see, not only the land, but my own mind, with its uneven terrain and movements, and to touch something elemental.”
— Jungjin Lee
This new, expanded edition of Unnamed Road was designed by Jungjin Lee and published on the occasion of an exhibition at GoEun Museum of Photography in Busan, South Korea.
이정진 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).
