Aperture No. 260: The Seoul Issue

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Korean History as Told Through Objects

Bohnchang Koo collects and photographs talismanic things—from moon jars to military articles—treating them as conduits to a complicated past.

Nikki S. Lee Stays in the Picture

She was a rising star in New York’s late-’90s art world—then she walked away. Can the artist reinvent herself in Seoul?

A Bittersweet Ode to the Teenagers of 2000s Seoul

In search of lost youth, the New York–raised Sung Jin Park spent his thirties photographing high schoolers in his native Korea.

Photographing the Night That Shook Seoul

Last December, South Korea found itself under martial law for the first time since the Gwangju Uprising. Yezoi Hwang took to the streets with her camera.

Heinkuhn Oh’s People of the Twenty-First Century

In mural-scale portraits of high schoolers, soldiers, and other social types, Oh subtly dramatizes tensions between collective and personal identity in Korean society.

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Aperture Magazine No. 261, “The Craft Issue” Cover
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Aperture No. 261

Aperture’s issue on craft features photographers who make pictures the slow way—building camera obscuras, creating photograms, and laboring in traditional darkrooms to make handmade, unrepeatable forms.

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