Chung Taek Yong, born in 1976 at Gwangmyeong, studied linguistics at Korea University and, after a short employment, photography at Chung-Ang University.

He has worked as a photo journalist for various new media.

He has had numerous exhibitions, including the solo exhibitions

You’re Isolated: Records of 1,895 Days of Struggle by Temporary Workers of the Kiryung
Electronics at the Congress Building in 2010,

and Hymn to Sleep, at Ryugaheon in 2016

and group exhibitions,

including Human Rights Exhibition, at the City Hall Station in 2008,

and Yongsan Disaster, Memory and Reflection after 8 Years, at Seoul City Hall.

He published several photo collections, including You’re Isolated (2010),
Ecce Homo (2011),

There Was a Village: Record of Struggle against the Expansion of the U.S. Army Camp (2012),

Living at Miryang (2014),

Expedition for Enucleation and Out-of-Transmission Tower (2015),

Miryang, Light of Ten Years (2015),

and Sleeping Out: A Sitdown on the High Rise Tower and Sleeping in the Open (2016).

He was awarded the Grand Prize of 2008 Human Rights Photography by the Lawyers Association for Democratic Society and the 2nd Prize of Orange Human Rights by the Foundation of Human Rights Saram.

Awards

2008 Grand Prize of 2008 Human Rights Photography by the Lawyers Association for Democratic Society

2017 The 2nd Prize of Orange Human Rights by the Foundation of Human Rights Saram

2019 Korea Labor Culture Award(Culture and Art Division) by Korea University Graduate School of Labor Studies·Institute for Research on Labor and Employment