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As a photographer, he worked for various international magazines including New York Times, International Herald Tribune and Korean GEO, and this professional experience is the significant portion leading up to where he is now.
Seok has co-organized Daegu Photo Biennale in 2006. Moreover, he has curated a series of acclaimed international exhibitions including Imaging Asia in Documents (2006) and Women in War (2014) for Daegu Photo Biennale and has involved in Dali International Photo Biennale (China, 2011, 2013, 2015 and 2017) and Foto Istanbul since 2015 as a foreign curator.
Seok received ‘the Best Curator Award’ twice from DIPE in China, 2015 & 2017.
Also, he has participated in many international photo festivals as a portfolio reviewer such as FotoFest in Houston, Format Festival, Koytography, Festival de la Luz in Buenos Aires and etc.
Thanks to his long-term career as a curator, Seok recently opened ArtSpace LUMOS, a mainly focus on photography space equipped with exhibition space and photo book library, and has organized special exhibitions including its first opening show, Robert Frank: Books and Films, 1947-2018 in cooperation with Steidl.

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