About the Author / Young Peace Corps volunteer, Paul Courtright was helping leprosy patients in the countryside of South Korea 1980. He enjoyed cooking eggs and listening to music. On his way back home from his medical checkup, he got caught in the middle of Gwangju massacre. Between Peace Corps policy and frustration, he decided to act. He escaped Gwangju to tell the US embassy what was going on there. He couldn't stop writing notes about what he was witnessing. It was the only way he could process what he was seeing. 『Witnessing Gwangju』 is based on his massive amount of notes. This memoir is not only the record of Gwangju uprising but also a great story of how the incident changed a young man's life in a very short period of time.

About the Photographer/ Robin Moyer was in Seoul, South Korea on assignment for Time Magazine when he heard about the 1980 Gwangju uprising. Shortly after covering Gwangju he became a Time contract photographer (1982-1999) and spent a lot of time photographing feature stories as well as breaking news. In 1982 he was awarded World Press Picture of the Year for a photo of the massacre of Palestinians in Lebanon, as well as a Gold Medal Citation from the Overseas Press Club's Robert Capa Award for Courage and Enterprise for his body of work in Lebanon. As chief photographer (Asia) for TIME, he took photographs of many news stories including Cambodian refugees, the People Power revolution and Muslim insurgencies in Mindanao, Afghanistan during Russian occupation, The rise of Aung San Suu Kyi in Myanmar, Sri Lanka’s long war, the Tiananmen Incident in Beijing in 1989, and the many colourful leaders in Asia. He photographed Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement' in 2014, and is currently producing a book on the current demonstrations in Hong Kong.