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Jehsong Baak
Jehsong Baak (born September 5, 1967) is a Korean-American photographer based in Paris, France. His photography, characterized by intimate and emotional black-and-white images, explores themes of solitude, memory, and autobiographical storytelling. His work is included in the collections of Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris, the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C., Houston Museum of Fine Arts.
Biography
Baak was born on September 5, 1967 in Junju, South Korea. He emigrated to the United States with his father, stepmother and half-siblings in 1977, living first in North Carolina and Alabama before settling in Maryland. He started taking photographs at Eleanor Roosevelt High School in Greenbelt, Maryland. Dropping out of the University of Michigan after one year, he moved to New York City to pursue photography. In 1998, he relocated to Paris, France where he continues to live and work.
Publications
He gained early recognition with his first book, Là ou Ailleurs, published in 2006 by the French publisher Robert Delpire, with an introduction by poet and art critic Alain Jouffroy (ISBN ). This was followed by Photographs in 2008 published by HUP Gallery in Amsterdam, Netherlands, One Last Goodbye in 2016 - about his early years in New York City (ISBN ), and Istanbul, Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow in 2024 - in collaboration with the French writer and diplomat, Sébastien de Courtois, published by Éditions du Loco in Paris (ISBN ).
Distinctions
2011 - Guest of Honor of Paris Photo, Grand Palais
2000 - Prix Kodak de la Critique, Paris
Collections
Baak’s work is included in several major public and private collections, including:
• The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
• Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
• Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
• George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY
• JPMorgan Chase Art Collection, NY
• Mendes Gans, Amsterdam
• Ministry of Agriculture of the Netherlands
• Musée Maillol, Paris
• Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
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