Christine Chung

About

Christine Chung is a Korean Filipino freelance photographer based in the Philippines. She is interested in exploring internal life through imagery. Her Ongoing work focuses on making sense of her own identity, sense of country, and relationship to the two cultures she was born into.

In 2012 and 2014, she was awarded a scholarship grant and was mentored by Kevin WY Lee in the Invisible Photographer Asia Online Mentorship Program. Here she produced 'A Portrait of Us.' In 2015, she was mentored by documentary photographer Alex Baluyut in the Masterclass in Documentary Photography Edition 10. In the same year, she attended the Angkor Photo Festival Workshop where she was mentored by Magnum members-photographers Sohrab Hura and Antoine d'Agata.

She graduated in 2016 with a degree in Humanities with concentrations in English Literature and Art Management from Ateneo de Manila University.

Say hi at christine.chung.a@gmail.com
 
CV

Exhibitions and Slideshows:

May 2017, Being Here and There (Group Show) curated by Marco Ugoy, Acceler8 Coworking, Makati, Philippines
January 2018, WIP Photo 5 Works in Progress Slideshow curated by A.G. de Mesa, Pioneer Studios, Mandaluyong, Philippines
September 2018, Swoon (Group Show), Tarzeer Pictures, Makati
June 2019, Record Record (Group Show), Tarzeer Pictures, MakatiJune 2019, Nasaan ang Katawan (Zine), Published by Comma at Kwago, La Fuerza Plaza, MakatiApril 2021, Floating Islands, D Emptyspace (Online) & 4LOG Seoul, Korea (Offline)

Featured:
January 2015, Invisible Photographer Asia
December 2016, Las Islas Filipinas
August 2017, Laatikkomo, Finland

Client Work:
November 2019, #Detours: Meet these inspiring bearers of gifts that keep on giving
April 2021, Tireless “Admin” helps fix the old wooden walkways that connect a coastal community