Months after ordering, Desert, by Jungjin Lee arrived. It is worth it.

“And now, over twenty years later, when I examine these works, I encounter the same experiences and energy I had felt then and there. Transcending time and space, everything is still, my mind is perfectly quiet, and I know I face ‘eternity and the absolute.’”

A boxed set. As you see, a large slipcase consisting of 4 sections of images and a word piece with text by Lee and by Robert Frank. This guide section provides index sized images of the picture contents that are the 4 books of Desert.

1. Desert: 1990-1992
2. American Desert: 1994 [toned]
3. American Desert: 1993-1994 [triptychs]
4. American Desert: 1994-1995

Jungjin Lee was trained as a ceramicist in Seoul. She came to the US in 1988 and studied photography at NYU.

I travelled a lot of the time in the middle of nowhere, I used to travel a lot in the Southwest states of America in the early 90’s. It has never mattered to me the name of the place where I photographed. I always like to go somewhere where I’m all by myself and there is the feeling that no one had previously set foot where I am. In Israel I travelled a lot in the Nagev desert and the West Bank, not so much in the city. This name ‘unnamed road’ relates to my previous work but also to the Israel project. Israel has such a long history that relates to the land and so many layers, so everybody puts different meanings on the place however when I say ‘unnamed road’ it feels contradictory. — Jungjin Lee, March 2015

Her work method is hand-coating paper and toning. Not far from the earthen materials and mode of ceramics. Her images retain that touch with, even so much as to distort the optical clarity of lens based photography.

Born 1961, Taegu, Korea

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