Joo Hwang studied photography at School of Visual Art and Yale University. In New York, her primary subject was the objectified identity of Asian women living in the United Sates. Upon returning to Korea, she has concentrated on documenting aspects of artificially constructed natural sites and structures which evolve as an economic system mutates itself from one form to another. Her photographs reveal discord and estrangement that takes place during such process. Joo Hwang metaphorically contemplates the inherent instability of capitalism in which people, goods and labor seek one another in an endless cycle.
