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  GALLERY YEH presents Limb Eung Sik (1912-2001) and Kim Woo Young (1960-) for Photo London Fair 2025. Limb Eung Sik is widely considered as the godfather of Korean photography and a pioneer of realism photography in Korea. Limb participated in the Korean War as a war correspondent, during which he witnessed the horrible reality of war. This experience opened his eyes to the importance of realist photography as well as its element of documentary. Throughout his career, he advocated for 'everydaylife realism', which portrays the bare reality through the artist's unique humanistic lens. This movement became a major trend in Korean photography after the War and functioned as a catalyst that helped the genre of photography to be recognized as a formal genre of art in Korea. In Limb's works, we find traces of the rapidly changing Korea in the 50s and the 60s, as well as the artist's hope for a better future.

Limb Eung Sik

  Kim Woo Young is devoted to capturing the changing urban landscape due to city planning and development. With an undergraduate degree in city planning, the photographer is keen on city plans and urban development, and their impact on urban life. His photography contains the past, the present, and the imagined future of Seoul's urban development. He finds urban structures that contain traces of time and raises a question on the meaning of urban development and how we, as the city's residents, should respond to it.

Kim Woo Young

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