2011.3.11 Earthquake in Japan. Taewon Jang travels on a short journey into the villages of the tsunami and earthquake victims to discover the remnants of a disaster. The introduction includes a series of e-mail exchanges between friends in Japan throughout the process of the project. The artist personally takes us to investigate the site of the ruins that now exist as empty names on a map. Accompanied with a text, this publication examines the psychological situations drawn from reality and fiction, memory and oblivion, absence and presence.

Taewon Jang (b.1976, Seoul, South Korea) After completing M.F.A. Fine Arts at Columbia University(NY, USA) and B.F.A. Photography at Chung-Ang University(Seoul, Korea), he currently lives and works in New York. Black Midday is the second ILWOO Photography Award catalogue published to commemorate the award.