This exhibition that will be held for the first time in Taiwan has been planned to display interests and level of expression of 20 Korean artists by horizontally laying out various sections of Korea's modern photography. A total of 132 works exhi-bited widely vary from traditional black and white gelatin silver prints to instal-lations, photographic sculptures and digital compositions. These pieces of art are a mixture of expressions familiar to us and demonstrations that cannot be explained within the traditional framework of photo-graphy. Hope that this exhibition will deepen the understanding of important issues that currently engage contemporary Korean photographers.

The first department of photo-graphy was established in a Korean university in 1964. Half a century has passed since then and now a thousand photo-graphy-majored students are graduating from over 20 univer-sities across the country. Quite a few of them are continuing their studies in graduate schools or leave abroad to study overseas and return home. These highly educated photographers of a new generation have become the central power of Korea's modern photography since the new millennium. Especially the young artists in their 30~40s are forming the main stream, who spent their youth in late 1980s at around the Seoul Olympics when Korea had achieved its greatest economic growth and democratization. Economic wealth, socio-cultural opening up, massive information that flows in without time delay and diversified values have made them immensely different from photo-graphers before them. They have moved away from collective and traditional values, and equipped themselves with free-dom and talents to reflect their personal history and cultural experience to their selection of subjects and process of their work. You will be able to feel such free atmosphere at this exhibition.