CYJO is a Korean American who began her photography career seven years ago after one of her images was published in The New York Times. In 2011, her photographic and textual work, The KYOPO Project, will be exhibited at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC. It will be the first exhibition in the history of the gallery that will focus on Asian Americans. She specializes in portraiture and contributes to Vision and Le Lettre de la Photographie magazines as a photographer and writer. She is currently based in Beijing where she is working on other photographic projects.

