12mm
Kang Jaegu
KT&G Sangsangmadang
English and Korean
Hardcover
72 pages
230 x 260 mm
2012
ISBN 9788994681207
<12mm> are series of portrait works showing those of young twenties is a work that shows disappearing individuals, changing ‘them’ into soldiers in military culture where demands uniformity and collectivization.
is a work that shows ‘them’ after service who have their own colors, existence and characteristics clearly belonging to social community, even though they are wearing military uniforms.
is third work from real experience of Jae Gu Kang when he had served as an army photographer. He took pictures for identification of each soldiers. When he did that, he took pictures of two or three people together on just one cut not one by one, due to save his film. After that, he cut those to fit in right size of ID photographs.
(source: https://www.lensculture.com/jae-gu-kang)
About the Artist
Kang Jae Gu is a South Korean photographer who has spent over two decades documenting the culture surrounding South Korea’s compulsory military service. His work deeply explores the psychological and emotional experiences of young men who are conscripted, portraying their journey from civilians to soldiers. Starting with his own experience as a military photographer, Kang captures the transformation of young men through a series of photographs that reveal the vulnerability and forced adaptation imposed by the rigid structure of the military.
https://minnieparkartproject.com/
(source: https://minnieparkartproject.com/Artists/jaegu-kang)
About the Publisher
KT&G SangsangMadang, a multi-culture complex opened in September 2007, provides a great support in order to create new culture by proposing and sharing various fields of trends including performance, film screening, design, visual arts and education.
https://www.sangsangmadang.com/
