HC 000 Loading the archive — silver halide, one frame at a time

Landscape · People · FixturesWorking worldwide

Hyosun Cho

Sixty years of travelling with a camera — the land, the people who live on it, and the small fixtures they leave behind. An archive still being added to.

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Leica M
50mm

N 37.5665°
E 126.9780°

001 — On the work

I have never wanted the famous view. I want the road just before it, the face that turns at the wrong moment, the latch on a door that has been opened ten thousand times. A place is its small things.

Recent
Frames

A handful pulled from the last few years on the road — a longer cut waits inside each place below.

Highland pass under cloud
FR.014 Highland pass Reykjavík · Iceland · 2019
Avenue at rush hour
FR.027 Avenue, dusk New York · USA · 2014
Bamboo grove path
FR.041 Bamboo, Arashiyama Kyoto · Japan · 2017
Seafront in the evening
FR.058 Malecón, evening Havana · Cuba · 2015

The Atlas

Six places she keeps returning to. Open one to walk its archive.

    002 — Studio

    Hyosun Cho was born in Seoul in 1947 and turns eighty this year. For six decades she has travelled with a camera — across some forty countries — photographing the land, the people who live on it, and the small fixtures they leave behind. She still develops her own film.

    Based in Seoul, on the road most of the year. Prints made by hand; commissions and exhibition loans by enquiry.

    Exhibitions & collections

    • National Museum, Seoul
    • Aperture, New York
    • Maison Européenne, Paris
    • The Photographers' Gallery
    • Magnum, contributing
    • Steidl — three monographs
    • Hasselblad Award, nom.
    • Private collections