Wind - signed

Aperture

112 pages, Hardcover

254 x 203 mm

2009

“In these photographs, subject is subservient to content. The subject may be a giant fog that eats a mountain and nibbles away the hills, or a cloud that has invaded a forest and advances steadily, softly, like a determined angel. The content is Jungjin Lee’s response to what she saw, shorthand notes from her spirit.” Vicki Goldberg

Photo scholar and critic Eugenia Parry explores Lee's series through the lens of Buddhist spirituality in the essay that accompanies Lee's photobook Wind.

Parry observes that in Lee's photographs she contrasts discarded props of human life with the land, symbolically acting as her on Buddhist teacher, asking viewers to "view ordinary things, love change, tolerate absolute incomprehensibility. Contemplate the temporal, recognize the celestial"

 ungjin 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).