| Self portrait (2011) |
Ahn Jun pushes self portraiture to the edge
Korean photographer says vertiginous shots speak to the future of our cities - if you're acrophobic look away now
The South Korean photographer Ahn Jun has got to know a skyscraper or two over the past few years. She has spent some time in New York, studying at Parsons art and design school, and she's now in Seoul at Hongik University, taking a Ph.D in photography. Indeed, she's so comfortable with tower blocks that she's taken to climbing to the tops of them just to photograph herself standing on the buildings' outermost edges. As she is at great pains to point out the photos are not digitally composed which, if you are at all acrophobic, might make you feel a little uneasy.