Saturday, May 1, 2010, 6:00pm – 10:00pm
Through May 29th

Detroit Center for Contemporary Photography presents MAYDAY an exhibition featuring images by three contemporary fine art photographers: Olaf Breuning, Yisook Shon, and Woojin Choi.

Olaf Breuning is a Swiss-born artist who lives and works in New York. His most recent showcase was in March 2010 at the Whitney Biennale where he took inspirations from one of the exhibition buildings, the 18th century Upper East Side Armory for an installation called The Army, thirty miniature metal soldiers marching to war. In the Fall of 2009 he exhibited at Metro Pictures in NYC.

Yisook Sohn received her BA literature from the Ewha Womans University in Korea and completed her MFA in photography from the Graduate School of Art & Design, Sangmyung at Seoul in 2007.

Her work has been exhibited in Korea and in the United States, including 15th Griffin Juried Exhibition, International Exhibition of Fine Art Photography in the Center for Fine Art Photography, 19th Annual Juried Show in the Contemporary Arts Collective, Las Vegas, as well as featured on Women in Photography. Yisook was the recipient of Lens Culture International Exposure Awards in 2009 as an Honorable Mention, 3rd annual photography masters cup in 2009 as an Honorable Mention, and 1st edition of Hey, Hot Shot! 2008, Honorable Mention. She had her first solo exhibition Madame C in 2009 in Seoul, Korea.

Woojin Choi received his BFA in Filmmaking from Chungiu University in Korea also his BFA in Fine Art from University of California. Woojin is expected to receive his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2010.

Woojin has received Audience Award from Korea Youth Film Festival in 1999. His images will be shown at Museum of Contemporary Art in Detroit as his MFA graduate exhibition through Cranbrook Academy Art.

Detroit Center for Contemporary Photography
7 North Saginaw Street
Pontiac, MI 48342
Gallery Hours Thursday, Friday, Saturday: 1:00- 5:00 Gallery aslo open by appointment