Photographer #425: Bohnchang Koo

Bohnchang Koo, 1953, South-Korea, is a fine-art and conceptual photographer based in Seoul. He first studied Business Administration at Yonsei University before studying photography in Hamburg. His work is often about impermanence, the passing of time, the disappearance and heritage. For his series Vessel he photographed rare porcelain ceramics of the Korean Joseon dynasty. He traveled to museums around the world to find and document the white objects against a white backdrop in soft light. As an "old family album" he tries to bring the objects together and retrieve the lost Korean heritage. Koo has been called "one of Korea's most influential photographers." Not only due to his photographic art, but also as an educator and exhibition planner he helped shape and promote Korean photography to a wider audience. He released a large number of monographs and his work has been exhibited extensively throughout the world and is found in public collections as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Houston Museum of Fine Arts. The following images come from the series Interiors, Vessel and In the Beginning.

Website: www.bckoo.com

Photographer #377: Hein-Kuhn Oh

Hein-Kuhn Oh, 1963, South-Korea, received a B.A. from Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara and an M.F.A. at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. His career started as a documentary photographer capturing the social landscapes on the streets. However in the last decade he concentrated on documenting specific groups of people that present a certain type of convention created by the Korean society. His series Ajumma contains a large selection of portraits that show middle-aged Korean women. In 2001 he started the Girl's Act series which consists of images of high school girls photographed between 2001 and 2004 and a series called Cosmetic Girls that he worked on between 2005 and 2009. For Cosmetic Girls he portrayed girls wearing make-up that he met on the streets, intrigued by the duality in the Korean society of the 'subject and object of desire'. The project deals with the common notions and stereotypes that are influenced by the entertainment media in Korean society. Hein-Kuhn has released four monographs and exhibited his work at a large number of venues around the globe. The following images come from the series Cosmetic Girls, Girl's Act: Highschool Girls and Ajumma.

Website: www.heinkuhnoh.com

Photographer #149: Jeongmee Yoon

Jeongmee Yoon, 1969, South-Korea, has been working on a series called The Pink & Blue Project since 2005. She photographs children, boys and girls in their rooms with their possessions. She noticed that her daughter wanted everything in Pink and found out that she was not unusual. The work raises several issues as, for example, the relationship between gender and consumerism. Yoon's work is often inspired by human behaviour, social structures and consumerism. The following images come from the series The Pink & Blue Project, Space-Man-Space and Zoo.

Website: www.jeongmeeyoon.com

Photographer #134: Myoung Ho Lee

South-Korean photographer Myoung Ho Lee, 1975, photographs trees. He frames the trees against white canvas backdrops, seperating the tree from it's original surrounding. Although the images might seem simple, to get his result requires a production crew and heavy cranes to install the canvases. Afterwards he removes the ropes or bars that might still be visible by minimal digital retouching. The trees are photographed using a large-format camera. The following images are all from the Tree series.

Unfortunately Myoung Ho Lee does not have a website, for more information go to: www.yossimilo.com/artists/myou_ho_lee/

Photographer #020: Yeondoo Jung

Korean photographer Yeondoo Jung, 1969, creates fantasy worlds by building stages and photographing them. Even though you sence that something is wrong, it takes a little while before you discover the secret. These photographs come from the series Locations.

In the series Wonderland, he has taken childrens' drawings and recreated them with real people and props. The results are impossible worlds of childrens' imagination.

Website: www.yeondoojung.com