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A Child Leading an Ox on a Rural Road(1971, Cheongdo)
ⓒ Jeong Jeong-hoe. Asia Culture Center Archive

42 years after this photo was taken in 1971, the young girl in this photograph became a grandmother with a grandson. She came to the exhibition hall where her own photo was displayed. She reminisced about her father from that time in the photograph and shared the story of how she had to sell the ox and get married later in her life. In this single photograph, important elements of her life were symbolically captured.

Eating Food at the Marketplace(1981, Changnyeong)
ⓒ Jeong Jeong-hoe. Asia Culture Center Archive

Jeong Jeong-hoe, a second-generation photographer in the Busan photography scene, is a late realist artist who has combined realism, lyricism, and formalism since the 1950s.

While photography in Korea in the 1970s was characterized by the expression of social consciousness and the dominance of pictorialism in art photography, the Busan photography scene focused on capturing people and the landscapes of everyday life.

When looking at Jeong Jeong-hoe’s rural life photographs, one can feel a nostalgic and warm sentiment captured in simple and understated black and white images.

Jeong Jeong-hoe’s photographs evoke memories of our lives during that era.

Go to the Asia Culture Museum Archive Jeong Jeong-hoe Photo Collection