Jehsong BAAK: Là ou ailleurs (Delpire, 2006)

Jehsong Baak is an American photographer living in Paris. At the age of nine, Baak left his native South Korea for America where the family eventually settled in Washington, D.C. Having discovered photography in his teens, Baak left the University of Michigan for New York City to devote himself exclusively to his work. He moved to Paris in 1998.

In 2006, his first monograph, Là ou Ailleurs, was published by Robert Delpire, followed by a second book Photographs, published in 2008 by the by HUP Gallery in Amsterdam. Baak was a member of Galerie Vu from 2000-2004 and has had solo exhibitions in Paris, New York, Amsterdam, Los Angeles, Istanbul and Milan.

His photographs can be found in the collections of the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, JPMorgan Chase Art Collection, Musée Maillol, the Wilson Center of Photography in London, as well as in numerous private collections.

Delpire, 2006

Hardcover, 10 x 11 inches

120 pages

Preface by Alain Jouffroy