Ten SAF photographers across four axes — documentary, landscape, experiment, and critique. From Cho Moon-ho's edges of the world to Lee Sucheol's pictures without a camera.
Photography is often called the medium that captures "things as they are." Meeting SAF 2026's ten photographers in sequence shakes that definition immediately. One walks old streets for the record. Another retouches like a painter to build a house of memory. Another makes photographs without a camera at all. Within one word — photography — many paths open.
This piece groups the ten photographers along four axes.
Record and Documentary
Cho Moon-ho — The Boundaries of the World Through the Lens
A major chronicler of Korean documentary photography. Long attached to edges, peripheries, landscapes being forgotten. →
Jung Youngshin — Photographing the Layers of Time
A photographer who stacks time's grain. Holds both the discipline of record and an aesthetic of it. →
Landscape and Space
Kim Suoh — Korean Medicine Doctor by Day, Oreum at Night
Seoul National University electronic engineering, then a Ph.D. from Kyung Hee Korean Medicine. Returned to Jeju as a doctor and photographer. He shoots Jeju's oreum at night and the four seasons of Jeju horses. SAF work . →
Lee Yeol — Walking the Path of Art With a Camera
Daily life and journeys in the frame. The posture of camera-as-walking-tool stays within the photographs. →
