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Seattle’s Johsel Namkung and photography’s “Silent Voices”
By Andrew Hamlin NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY Johsel Namkung was not at first a photographer by trade. Born in 1919 in Gwangju, South Korea, Namkung, who died in 2013, immigrated to Seattle in 1947 to attend the University of Washington (UW). He’d previously …