Voice gathers forty-six photographs that Jungjin Lee made in 2018 and 2019. Deserts, mountains, sea and open ground provide recognizable subjects, but the book asks for something other than a geographical reading. Lee describes her images as metaphors connected to meditation and to an inward experience of the world. A tree, a horizon or a dark shape on water can therefore remain identifiable while also becoming a way of thinking about stillness, distance and presence.

The photographs combine strongly defined forms with surfaces that resist a smooth, transparent description of place. Branches gather into dark networks; a pale sky meets a heavily shaded slope; water carries small changes in light. Lee’s practice includes printing on hand-emulsified cotton or mulberry paper and subsequently altering the image’s finish. That process belongs to her photographic work, rather than being a claim that every page of this edition is handmade. Texture and simplified form are central to the encounter with the images.

Published by Nazraeli Press in 2022, Voice is a 110-page hardcover with forty-six quadratone plates. It is Lee’s third monograph with the publisher. The preview pages give the photographs ample space and frequently allow an image to extend across an opening. Moving from trees and water to desert plants and distant terrain, the sequence makes changes in density and contrast especially apparent. The physical spread becomes a field for looking, rather than a container for a long explanatory narrative.

Lee studied ceramics in Seoul before completing a photography master’s degree at New York University in 1991, and she worked with Robert Frank during her time in New York. For readers following her practice, Voice brings material experimentation and sustained attention to the natural world together in book form. Its appeal lies in returning to the photographs: what first reads as a landscape may later become a pattern, a sensation of space, or an encounter with the image’s surface.