Lee Jeong-jin is a representative Korean female photographer who embroiders vast nature on Korean paper like an ink-and-wash painting, and while building a world-renowned reputation, she devotes herself to building a subjective world of photography as a visual medium and formative art, breaking away from the objective attitude of documentary photography, which is based on realism and recordability. have been Her photo book 『SIMMANI』 is a masterpiece of rare documentary work created while the artist was working as a photo reporter for 'Deep-rooted Tree' magazine. Photos dominate.
This series, which she recorded while filming Ulleungdo for a year from 1987, is in the form of a photo essay and was published in 1998 under the title of 『A Remote House on a Distant Island』. Thirty-three years later, Lee Jung-jin came to rearrange these photographs, which contained the evocative power of her photographs and their meaning as a record value. And in the process, the original title of this series, “Lonely House on a Distant Island,” was reconstructed under the name “Simmani,” paying attention to the life of an old man, Mr. Chae, who went to Ulleungdo to gather wild ginseng.
