Jungjin Lee(b.1961) is renowned for her works that deviate from the conventional documentative qualities of photography such as reproducibility, permanence, or replicability, and present a space of poetic echos that reflect sensibility and intuition. Since the American Desert series, which captures the primitive landscapes she encountered during her travel in America during the 1990s, Lee invented and developed her distinctive technique of hand-painting photosensitive emulsion onto handmade Korean mulberry and has been actively working between the United States and Korea for the past 30 years. She participated in the photography project Israel: This Place in 2011 that was put together by the French photographer Frédéridc Brenner. Thomas Struth, Stephen Shore, and Jeff Wall are among the other twelve prominent photographers who joined the show. Throughout the show, Lee received international attention as the only Asian photographer invited to participate in the project. In 2016, she had a major retrospective at the Fotomuseum Winterthur in Switzerland, which later traveled to the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Arts, Gwacheon in 2018. Lee's photographs are included in the collections of world-renowned institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, USA), Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, USA), Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles, USA), and FNAC (Paris, France).
