Jungjin Lee (born 1961)[1] is a South Korean photographer and artist who currently lives and works in New York City.
Lee effaces the technological capability of her digital camera to communicate her emotional state of mind at the time she takes the photograph to the viewer.
Parry observes that in Lee's photographs she contrasts discarded props of human life with the land, symbolically acting as her on[clarification needed] Buddhist teacher, asking viewers to "view ordinary things, love change, tolerate absolute incomprehensibility.
[8] Photo critic and historian Vicki Goldberg observes that Lee's landscapes represent her own, "introspective states and thoughts.
"[9] While the majority of Lee's work focuses on the land; in several series she explores other subjects including Pagodas (1998); crumbling Buddhist sculptures, Buddhas (2002); everyday objects, Thing (2003–06) and portraits, Breath (2009–).