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BIO

Bio
Jean Chung is an award-winning photojournalist from South Korea who gained international recognition for her photographic documentations in Afghanistan and Africa.
She is a Grand Prix winner of prestigious CARE Humanitaire Reportage in 2007 and the inaugural Pierre & Alexandra Boulat Award in Perpignan, France in 2008; first prize winner of Days Japan Photojournalism Awards and WHO’s Stop Tuberculosis Partnership Award in 2008, second prize winner in 2010 and special jury award winner in 2011 of Days Japan Photojournalism Awards consecutively.
Since starting as a full-time freelance photojournalist in 2004, she has been covering an array of news from general news to feature stories that deal with social issues and human conditions in various parts of the world. Most notably, her work on maternal morality in Afghanistan and victims of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have gained international recognitions. She hopes to bring awareness to the public with these issues, and tries to deliver the voices of the oppressed citizens of the world in her own visual language.
She is the author of three essays all published in South Korea respectively: “A Photographer in Kabul (2008),” “Tears in the Congo (2008),” and “Struggle for Hope (2010).”
She was named as an ambassador against MDR-TB (Multi-drug resistant Tuberculosis) on World Tuberculosis Day on March 2010 in Seoul, South Korea, and as one of 15 Asian Women Photographers at Ankor Photo Festival in November 2010.