Jewan Goo (he/him, b. Seoul, South Korea) is a research-based photographer whose work focuses on reexamining and reconstructing the suppressed history of Korea during the Japanese colonial period. His projects investigate how power and knowledge are shaped by institutional archives and educational systems, often manipulated for political control and censorship. Through his photographic practice, Goo creates alternative visual narratives for histories that lack photographic evidence but are preserved in written records. By challenging conventional historical narratives, he seeks to expose how cultural identities and historical memories have been simplified and controlled by external forces.
Goo holds an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania and is currently based in Philadelphia, where he continues to explore the intersections of history, photography, and critical inquiry.
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Jewan Goo (he/him, b. Seoul, South Korea) is a research-based photographer whose work focuses on reexamining and reconstructing the suppressed history of Korea during the Japanese colonial period. His projects investigate how power and knowledge are shaped by institutional archives and educational systems, often manipulated for political control and censorship. Through his photographic practice, Goo creates alternative visual narratives for histories that lack photographic evidence but are preserved in written records. By challenging conventional historical narratives, he seeks to expose how cultural identities and historical memories have been simplified and controlled by external forces.
Goo holds an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania and is currently based in Philadelphia, where he continues to explore the intersections of history, photography, and critical inquiry.
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Jewan Goo (he/him, b. Seoul, South Korea) is a research-based photographer whose work focuses on reexamining and reconstructing the suppressed history of Korea during the Japanese colonial period. His projects investigate how power and knowledge are shaped by institutional archives and educational systems, often manipulated for political control and censorship. Through his photographic practice, Goo creates alternative visual narratives for histories that lack photographic evidence but are preserved in written records. By challenging conventional historical narratives, he seeks to expose how cultural identities and historical memories have been simplified and controlled by external forces.
Goo holds an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania and is currently based in Philadelphia, where he continues to explore the intersections of history, photography, and critical inquiry.
Jewan Goo (he/him, b. Seoul, South Korea) is a research-based photographer whose work focuses on reexamining and reconstructing the suppressed history of Korea during the Japanese colonial period. His projects investigate how power and knowledge are shaped by institutional archives and educational systems, often manipulated for political control and censorship. Through his photographic practice, Goo creates alternative visual narratives for histories that lack photographic evidence but are preserved in written records. By challenging conventional historical narratives, he seeks to expose how cultural identities and historical memories have been simplified and controlled by external forces.
Goo holds an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania and is currently based in Philadelphia, where he continues to explore the intersections of history, photography, and critical inquiry.