The human documentary photo book, YEOINSUK 2007-2021, is a record of people living in “Yeoinsuk,” a traditional Korean lodging facility. In the past, Yeoinsuk was a cheap kind of the inns for the poor travellers, but nowadays it is more used as a dwelling place for the lowest class, of which size is about 1 pyeong(1.8m×1.8m) with no cooling or heating systems at all. I first recorded in July 2007 on black-and-white film, and then has visited, researched and taken photos of the old and traditional Yeoinsuks across the country for over 14 years.
Lee Gang-san is a Korean documentary photographer whose long-term projects over the past three decades explore human lives, lived spaces, and the traces of time. His major bodies of work include House, Yeoinsuk, and Silence, focusing on human dignity, memory, time, and silence. He has held nine solo exhibitions and participated in invited exhibitions, including Sympathy at the Lee Ungno Museum (2026) and Cities & Humans at the Daejeon International Photo Festival (2025). He has published Yeoinsuk 2: Time of Humans (2025), Yeoinsuk (2021), and House: A Room on Earth (2017).
