Naked City Shutterbug
July 5th, 2006 by AlexRecently came across “Naked City Spleen,” a collection of work by a photographer named Miru Kim. It’s a collection of photos she’s taken across cityscapes—generally, the underground, forgotten portions of those cityscapes. The “personal” aspect of it? In each photo, she appears as a tangential element—naked. (See, Naked City. Get it?)
She explains:
One significant motivating force in Naked City Spleen is the identification with the creatures that inhabit the forgotten and forbidden urban spaces. Images of my body in the photographs appear to impersonate the condition of freedom which is intrinsic to all sentient living beings.
Check the whole thing out here.