Walker Evans (November 3, 1903 – April 10, 1975) was an American photographer best known for his work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) documenting the effects of the Great Depression.  Much of Evans's work from the FSA period uses the large-format, 8x10-inch camera.  He said that his goal as a photographer was to make pictures that are "literate, authoritative, [and] transcendent."  Many of his works are in the permanent collections of museums, and have been the subject of retrospectives at such institutions as The Metropolitan Museum of Art and George Eastman House.

The first Walker Evans solo photo exhibition in Korea is held by Hanmi Photograph Museum and John T. Hill, who was the first dean of the Photography Studies at the Graduate School of Yale University and also was Walker Evans’ friend.  140 pieces of Evans’ work will be displayed.