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March 22, 2008 - April 26, 2008
HATNIM LEE PHOTOGRAPHS
September 2006 - December 2007
Click here for the full press release in PDF format.
Hatnim Lee press:
Hatnim Lee creates vivid, large-scale photos of saturated colors—from fashion shoots to poignant
portraits—with an ease that belies her youth. Following an internship with David LaChapelle, in
2006, Hatnim Lee continued to develop her craft in Los Angeles, CA, Brooklyn, NY, and Washington,
DC. Lee's exhibition at Transformer featured a range of works reflecting her photographic interests
over the last two years, and launched her new book: HATNIM LEE PHOTOGRAPHS September 2006 –
December 2007.
September 22nd, 2006 marks the day Lee got her first professional digital camera. This Canon 5D
has been by her side every day since. She started a blog soon after, while finishing her internship and
launching her freelance career, as a way to keep working and make her work public. Lee states, “It
motivated me to see the blog up. It was like my photo moleskin - those black books artists carry
around.”
This exhibition and the accompanying book that Lee has self-published, reflect a visual diary of
places she has visited, people she has met, and the experiences she had - how she lived her life –
from the time she got her Canon 5D and started her blog in September 2006 through December
2007. The exhibition and book are a collection of images selected from Lee’s blog.
Lee states about her work, “Taking pictures has been a journey for me. There is always the debate of
doing commercial or fine art photography, but I have realized that it is all the same thing. The
difference is how you want to interpret it. I like capturing vulnerable moments. When a subject’s
heart shakes hands with mine, it’s like being emotionally rocked by a moment in time. My camera
goes with me everywhere. Whenever I see anything that gives me butterflies in my stomach, or ‘visual
orgasms’ as I call them, I shoot it.”
The photographs in this exhibition and book are a hodgepodge of friends hanging out at Lee’s
house, on location for National Geographic, working at her parents’ liquor store, editorial shoots for
Anthem and Teen magazines, a Korean bus tour through California, running into David Arquette at a
party, her family getting ready for bed, to everything and anything in between.
Hatnim Lee’s work has been exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery 2005 & 2007, the Korean Cultural
Center, Los Angeles, CA 2006 and the Washington Project for the Arts 2005. Additionally her work
has been published in several magazines including: Teen 2007& 2008, Anthem 2007 & 2008, Jane
2007, American Songwriter 2007, Hong Kong Cosmo 2008, DC Modern Luxury 2007 & 2008, and
Music Connection 2007. Lee’s work has also been featured on the following websites:
www.prefixmag.com 2007 & 2008, www.brightestyoungthings.com 2008,
www.imposemagazine.com (2008); videos/films: still for "Eagles of Death Metal" video (2006), stills
for "triptosane" film (www.triptosane.com 2007) and www.she.com (2007-2008). Lee’s work will also
be featured on the National Geographic Channel as part of the press photo/photo documentation for
"human footprint" which airs April 2008.
Artist link: hatnimlee.blogspot.com
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