ニューヨークを拠点とする韓国人写真家、ジョンジン・リー（Jungjin Lee）の作品集。2018年から2019年の間に制作され、2020年にソウルの「PKM Gallery」でも展覧されたシリーズをまとめた一作。本書は、作者にとって「NAZRAELI PRESS」より刊行された3冊目の作品集となり、46作の大判写真作品で構成されている。

本作は、砂漠や山、海、平原などで撮影されているが、曰く「私のイメージはメタファー、ある種の瞑想として見られるべきものです。決して風景や自然を描いているのではないのです。砂漠は私に自らの内面を見させてくれる。私のゴールは、そこで感じたもの、つまり世界に対して開き、見せてくれる永遠の感覚、それをイメージ化することなのです」。

作者の作品は、写真のプロセスにおける境界を拡げ、テクスチャー的な表現とミニマルな表現を同時に体現するイメージを描く。手作業で乳剤を施したコットンペーパーや桑紙にイメージをプリントしたのち、技術的なプロセスを経て仕上がり方を変化させ、結果コントラストの高い作者独自のイメージを生み出している。

Jungjin Lee’s extraordinary new artist’s book, Voice, comprises 46 large-scale photographs made in 2018 and 2019. While the photographs were originally made in deserts, mountains, oceans and plains, the artist writes, “My images should be seen as metaphors, a form of meditation. I do not depict landscapes or nature. The desert allows me to see my inner self, and my goal is to make images of what I feel there: the eternal sense of being open and present to the world.”

Lee’s work has expanded the boundaries of the photographic process to create images that are simultaneously textural and minimalist. After printing an image on hand-emulsified cotton or mulberry paper, she then alters its finish, using technological processes that result in a distinct, high contrast image.

Born in Korea in 1961, Lee began photographing while a student at Hongik University in Seoul, where she earned a BFA in ceramics in 1984. After graduating, Lee worked as a photo journalist and freelance photographer. She earned an MA in Photography from New York University in 1991. While in New York City, Lee worked for the photographer Robert Frank. Later, she traveled across the country and was deeply moved by the American desert, which became the subject of several of her photographic series.

Lee’s work has been exhibited widely and is in countless collections, including the The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, LA County Museum of Art, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Gwacheon, Korea, the Seoul Museum of Art, and the Goeun Museum of Photography in Busan, Korea. Her work has been the subject of numerous publications; Voice is the Jungjin Lee’s third monograph with Nazraeli Press.