Simmani

Lee Jung-jin is a representative Korean female photographer who embroiders the vast nature of nature on hanji paper like an ink wash painting. As she built a global reputation, she broke away from the objective stance of documentary photography, which prioritizes realism and record-keeping, and dedicated herself to building a subjective photographic world as a visual medium and a form of plastic art. Her photo collection, "SIMMANI," is a masterpiece that contains rare documentary work created during her time as a photojournalist for the magazine "Deep-Rooted Tree." It mainly features Lee Jung-jin's early documentary photographs, which captured an elderly couple she encountered by chance on Ulleungdo Island some 35 years ago. This series, documented over a year of photographing Ulleungdo Island from 1987, was organized in the form of a photo essay and published in 1998 alongside an exhibition under the title "A House on a Faraway Island." Thirty-three years later, Lee Jeong-jin reorgani