For this year's edition of the ADAA Art Fair 2018, Peter Blum Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of Chris Marker's photographic series Koreans.

Chris Marker (1921-2012) was one of the last journalists who had the unique opportunity to travel and explore North Korea freely in 1957. The result of these travels was a group of photographs entitled Koreans. This series reflects an uncensored record of daily life in North Korea four years after the end of the devastating war and shortly before the border was closed off. Now as much as ever, these images resonate against a backdrop of the complex relationship between North and South Korea and the current political environment.  

Chris Marker is one of the most influential and important filmmakers, photographers, and activists to emerge in the post-war era. Marker appeared on the Paris cultural landscape as a writer and editor and also became identified for his uniquely expressive non-fiction films. Marker garnered international recognition in 1962 with the science-fiction short film La Jetée. His work continues to be exhibited widely around the world, including: the 2015 Venice Bienniale, MoMA, and the Centre Pompidou, among others.

Selected solo exhibitions include: the Whitechapel Gallery, London (retrospective); MIT List Visual Arts Center and Carpenter Visual Arts Center, Cambridge (retrospective); The Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Atelier Hermès, Seoul; Les Rencontres d’Arles de la Photographie, Arles; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; MoMA PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; The Jeu de Paume, Paris; The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin; and Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona.