New York-based artist Miru Kim presents photographs of the abandoned urban underground from her series Naked City Spleen.

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David Schonauer, "Interview: Miru Kim," American Photo, PopPhoto.com, December 2008

Her nude self-portraits created in dilapidated urban settings have made this young photographer a rising star.

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New York-based artist Miru Kim presents photographs of the abandoned urban underground from her series Naked City Spleen.

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Close Up: Photographers at Work, "Portraits" (Embedded Video)

Documentary by Albert Maysles (Grey Gardens, Gimme Shelter, Salesman) featuring Bruce Davidson, Miru Kim, Brigitte Lacombe, Jay Maisel, Steve McCurry, Susan Meiselas.

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Miru Kim, “Naked City Spleen,” NY Arts Magazine, September/October 2008 (PDF 420 KB)

I decided...to express through art my desire to feel not only the skin of the city, but also the inner layers of its intestines and veins, swarmed with miniscule life forms and filled with collective memories.

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Colby Buzzell, “Miru Kim Takes Pictures,” Esquire, Best and Brightest Issue, December 2007 (PDF 1.3 MB)

It started in a cavernous basement in Berlin. Miru Kim loves abandoned, forbidding, frightening places. She was shooting, but something was missing. "I wanted to put something else in there. A living thing."

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John O’Connor, “We’ll climb that bridge when we come to it,”               Financial Times Magazine, December 1/2 2007 (PDF 1.5 MB)

"I love rats," Miru says. "Down here I can see myself as some kind of animal, burrowing in the dirt and the darkness."

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Ben Gibberd, “Children of Darkness,” The New York Times,                    The City Section, July 29, 2007 (PDF 540 KB)

They plumb tunnels, trestles and other abandoned places, often illicitly, and in those shadow cities find the pulsing center of New York.

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Howard Halle, “Tunnel Vision,” Time Out New York, July 13-19, 2006 Reprinted in Time Out New York Student Guide, 2007/2008 (PDF 344 KB)

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