Daesung Lee KR, b. 1975

Daesung Lee (1975, KR) graduated in Fine Arts, with a specialization in photography, from Chung-Ang University in Seoul (Korea). After his studies, he traveled around the world for a time before dedicating himself to documentary photography from 2007 onward. In 2010, he moved away from a documentary approach and began working with staged photography to make the impact of climate change on societies more visible.His two series «On the Shore of a Vanishing Island» and «Archaeology of the Future» have received major the awards including the Voies off Prize, Lens Culture Prize, Sony World Photography Awards and Dahinden Prize. These works have been exhibited in numerous international festivals, among them Photoquai at the Quai Branly Museum and La Gacilly in France, and published in media around the world. In 2017, he addressed the issue of nuclear waste through a fictional work documentary “The Red Forest” which was a finalist for the Friends of the Albert Museum Prize Kahn and exhibited at festivals in Bourg-en-Bresse 2019 and Brest 2020. In 2022, he was selected for a Saint-Laurent Self 07 art project. Daesung Lee created a work about the imaginary nature of escape during the pandemic, later exhibited in Seoul. In 2023, he was selected as the winner of the 2023 Talent Grant with his work «Love your neighbors» about the Bosnian civil war, and the work was exhibited at the BNF (Paris, France) 2024.