Bae Bien-U

Korean spelling
Hangeul	배병우
Revised Romanization	Bae Byeong-u
McCune- Reischauer	Pae Pyŏngu
See also : Korean name

Bae Bien-U (born May 22, 1950 in Yeosu , Jeollanam-do Province , South Korea ) is a South Korean photographer . He has been a professor of photography at the Seoul Institute of the Arts since 1981 . In his artistic work, Bae mainly deals with landscape photographs. His most popular recordings deal with the pine forest around Cheonmachong . When Barack Obama visited Seoul in 2009, the South Korean government gave him an illustrated book with Bae's work as a gift.

Illustrated books

• Wonkyung Byun, Thomas Wagner, Bae Bien-U (Photographer): Bae Bien-U: Sacred Wood . Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern 2009 ISBN 978-3-7757-2283-4 . Awarded the German Photo Book Prize 2010.
• Wonkyung Byun (Ed.): Bae Bien-U: Windscape . Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern 2012 ISBN 978-3-7757-3497-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Pyŏng-u Pae in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Curriculum vitae on Nate-People  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed August 10, 2013 (Korean).  
2. ↑ Nora Reinhardt: The Korean regular guest . Mirror online. April 21, 2009. Retrieved November 25, 2009.
3. ↑ Pine trees shade photographer's lens . Interview in the JoongAng Daily from January 17th, 2012 (English).

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Bae is the family name here, Bien-u is the first name.