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Heinkuhn Oh’s black-and-white photographs are a vivacious portrait of Seoul in the 1990s. Oh’s series “Itaewon Story” is a record of the denizens of the neighborhood Itaewon, a district known for glamorous outsiders of all kinds—artists, US soldiers, LGBTQ citizens, sex workers, and others who might not have anywhere else to go in the city. “Theatrical as they might be, the characters of the series are photographed at moments of candor with minimal pretension, producing an unapologetic take on the traits of the locale,” writes Harry C. H. Choi. “Oh’s images demand that we remain curious about those strangers, foreigners, and outsiders around us, that we let them freely roam, showing us who they are.” See our link in bio to read more on Heinkuhn Oh’s work by Harry C. H. Choi from Aperture’s “Celebrations” issue. Images by Heinkuhn Oh from the series “Itaewon Story”; Courtesy the artist
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