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Media coverage: An American Called Tom Has Photo Exhibition In Korea, Kumho Culture Monthly, May, 1997:"Tom R. Chambers' thirty-third exhibition is currently being held at the Kumho Art Center in Gwangju. Thetitle of the show is People To People, and it takes a look at the Korean people through documentaryportraits. His photographs are combined with those of a Korean photographer, Choi Ok-soo, to offer aWestern/Eastern perspective of documentation . Mr. Chambers said that photographs are made fromdifferent viewpoints, and these viewpoints represent the respective photographer's feelings about reality.And he continued by saying that his images project these feelings and make others aware of their ownreality. Mr. Chambers spoke slowly and articulately during the interview for this story. He wanted to makesure that he was understood. He said that his way of speaking had become a habit since residing in Korea.This month is very special for him because of his current exhibition and his recent marriage to a Koreanwoman. At the age of fifty, he decided to say adieu to single life, and got married to Cho Eun-mi at Hyangkyoin Gwangju. He had a Traditional Korean Wedding Ceremony, and Choi Ok-soo documented the event. Threeof those photographs are a part of People To People. Mr. Chambers continued to talk about his photographicstyle by saying that he makes photographs only in black-and-white, because color detracts from subjectcontent. His works in this exhibition focus on harmony between a human being and his/her environment. Hedocuments people just as they are, naturally and truthfully." (Yoon Jeong-mi, Reporter; translation by KimHye-Kyung)

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EXHIBITION

People To People (two-person show), Kumho Art Center, Gwangju, South Korea (accepted as a part of theKumho Art Foundation Archives), 1997.

Chambers and Choi Ok-soo are seen with a monk at a temple [Jeungsimsa; Mugaksa; Wonhyosa] nearGwangju, South Korea where they made several photographs for the "People to People" project:

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