Jaehyun SEOK

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Director of ArtSpace LUMOS / Artistic Director of Chungmu Arts Center, Seoul

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EN、KR

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SEOK Jaehyun was born in Daegu, Korea. His career can be summarized as a photographer, educator, and curator. His experience working as a photographer for international publications such as The New York Times, International Herald Tribune, and Korean GEO has brought him to where he is now. 

 

Seok co-organized the Daegu Photo Biennale in 2006. He has curated many international exhibitions, including Imaging Asia in Documents (2006) and Women in War (2014) for the Daegu Photo Biennale. He has been the artistic director of the Busan International Photography Festival since 2020. He has been a foreign curator for Dali International Photo Biennale since 2011 and Foto Istanbul (2015-2017). Seok received the Best Curator Award twice from DIPE in China, in 2015 & 2017. He has also participated in many international photo festivals as a portfolio reviewer, including FotoFest in Houston, Format Festival, Les Rencontres d’Arles, Koytography, and Festival de la Luz in Buenos Aires. As an international curator, he played the role of nominator and jury for Photography Awards. He established the Photography Project on Climate Change, curated international exhibitions, and ran photographic awards with Chungmu Arts Center and the National Ecology Institution in Seoul since 2023. 

 

In addition to his work as an international curator, he has been running ArtSpace LUMOS, which has an exhibition space and a photobook library in Daegu, Korea, since 2018.