Arin Yoon photographs, 2011-2025

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Summary

Creator:
Yoon, Arin (윤아린)
Abstract:
Arin Yoon (윤아린) is an award-winning Korean American documentary photographer and visual artist based in the Kansas City area. Collection contains 40 prints for Arin Yoon's project, "To Be At War," documenting the impact of war and life within the military community. Images depict depict spouses, children, and families of military personnel including Yoon's own; service members and their relationships with family; moving, departures, and reunions; and day-to-day life in the military community. Acquired by the Archive of Documentary Arts.
Extent:
1.5 Linear Feet
Language:
Materials in English.
Research Center:
Archive of Documentary Arts
Collection ID:
RL.13198

Background

Scope and content:

Collection contains 40 prints for Arin Yoon's project, "To Be At War," documenting first-person narratives of war and its impact on life for military families. Prints are 11x14 and 11x17 and in color. Images are mainly photographs taken in Fort Stewart, Georgia and Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and depict spouses, children, and families of military personnel including Yoon's own; service members and their relationships with family; relocation, departures, and reunions; and day-to-day life in the military community.

Biographical / historical:

Arin (윤아린) Yoon is an award-winning Korean American documentary photographer and visual artist based in the Kansas City area. Yoon's work focuses on the military community and the impacts of war, notions of family, women and issues of identity and representation. Arin Yoon is a 2025 recipient of an Archive of Documentary Arts Collection Award for the project, "To Be At War."

Source: "About" page, https://www.arinyoon.com/about, accessed June 3, 2026

Acquisition information:
The Arin Yoon photographs were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library from Arin Yoon as a winner of the 2025 Archive of Documentary Arts Collection Award.
Processing information:

Processed by Tere Elizalde, June 2026

Accessions described in this collection guide: 2026-0019

Titles were derived from Arin Yoon's description with additional information provided in the print's scope and content note.

Arrangement:

Arranged in the original order received.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Subjects

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Subjects:
Families of military personnel -- United States
Military spouses -- United States
Children of military personnel -- United States
Soldiers -- Family relationships
Format:
Digital prints
Names:
Archive of Documentary Arts (Duke University)
Yoon, Arin (윤아린)
Places:
Fort Leavenworth (Kan.)
Fort Stewart (Ga.)

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