a Miru Kim of Korean-American beauty photographer in New York "The Pig That Therefore I Am" shooting festival, she lay nude in the photo in the pig sty, letting pigs close to the skin or even close to each other. Kim wanted to self-timer, exploring the similarities between humans and animals, and critical human thought is superior to animals.
"The Pig That Therefore I Am" shooting film festival with pig sty in the background, in order to find the perfect scene, Kim sent hundreds of letters to various large pig farms, after two months of hard work, finally found a pig farm, Missouri is willing to let her shoot. Kim said that six hours of shooting, she had been very nervous, because in addition to endure the smell and dirty things, also fear that workers burst and pig's attack. But she said that after the shooting, let her feel the pig to a certain extent can control his temper, not free to attack others.
ethnic Koreans Miru Kim-American was born in Seoul, from 1999 to read of New York Medical College, courses requiring Anatomy of animals, in the course of Anatomy of a pig, found them and the human body resembles thought becomes a surgeon she, interested in the transfer to master of Arts, began to study the various types of animals and produced images.
Kim originally as a series of nude self portrait in the ruins in the city fame, named the "Naked City Blues" (Naked City), her body naked broke into was in the works of forgotten ruins, hope in stark contrast to the ruins and, her shooting locations included old abandoned railway stations, tunnels, sewers, catacombs, factories, hospitals and even was a mortuary is her location.
