Daesung Lee

Daesung Lee was born in 1975 in South Korea and has lived in Paris since 2010.

From 2010, he moved away from documentary photography and adopted a
approach based on staging to make the impact of change visible
climate on societies. His two series "On the Shore of a Vanishing Island" and "Archaeology of the Future" have won awards (Voies-off Prize and Lens Culture Prize, Sony World Photography Awards and Dahinden Prize). They have been exhibited in numerous
international festivals (including Photoquai at the Quai Branly Museum, La Gacilly in France)
and published in media around the world (including Le Monde, The Guardian, The
Washington Post, GEO, The New Yorker).

In 2017, he addressed the issue of nuclear waste through a fictional work.
documentary “The Red Forest” which was a finalist for the Friends of the Albert Museum Prize
Kahn and exhibited at festivals in Bourg-en-Bresse 2019 and Brest 2020.

In 2022, he was selected for a Saint-Laurent Self 07 art project. He created a work about the imaginary nature of escape during the pandemic and exhibited it in Seoul.

In 2023, he was selected as the winner of the 2023 Talent Grant with his work
"Love your neighbors" about the Bosnian civil war, and was exhibited at the BNF 2024.