DesertArguably one of Korea's most important photographers an appellation that is well deserved Jungjin Lee has consistently produced work that is intelligent, thoroughly modern, and steeped in an approach to image making that one rarely stumbles upon, akin to a rare treasure. Made between 1990 95, the Desert series was not printed until this past year, when Lee revisited her negatives and saw something she had not seen before. Devoid of any evidence of

but also extended their contemporary significance through creative interpretation

and May Wilson

Carl Mydans

We wandered among the quiet dark tract housing

not just a place to pass through

The images often locate their subjects within the specificities of the season and balance a historical project with the immediacy of a moment in its individual radiance

The story of these images of London starts at a second-hand bookshop in Tallahassee

When mallard ducks pushed out from the bank to swim across the river in search of a safe haven for the night

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Each one is a fragment of a conversation

Mies van der Rohe

Her work invests the themes of female representation