Honorable Mention / 2019 / Press / Political

Political Winds in Open Grasslands

  • Photographer
    Jung Hanjo, Korea, Republic of
  • Studio
    KONG Media

Demonstration site to protest against the ruling party’s corruption. People think of grasslands, horses and nomads first when it comes to Mongol. But, Mongol is gradually changing dynamically. Recently, there were a lot of demonstrations under the stimulus of the developed networking and changes in the neighboring countries. A future political change is in the spotlight about Mongol which is static country and has reclusive image.

I am a Korean photographer and photo critic. I majored in fine art and photography in University, Korea and got a doctor’s degree in Art Plastic. Since then, I have established KONG Media and started planning · making documentary photographs and films. I have presented a lot of documentary photographs and won 30 prizes at the leading international photo contests like IPA and P×3, etc. In addition, I also planned several documentary films.