Miss president


  • Photographer
    Youngho Kang
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Company/Studios
    Sangsang Variations
  • Date of Photograph
    2012
  • Technical Info
    Nikon

She is Park Geun-Hye. She is not just any woman. She is the current president of South Korea. Not only did I take the photos from her back. I wanted to visualize the way she was touching the people surrounding her. Also, I was curious as to understand what the world looks like from her point of view. And so I followed her for a year, before she became the president

Story

The subject for my series, ‘Miss President’, is in fact none other than The President herself, Park Geun-Hye. She is South Korea’s current president, and also the country’s first female president. The majority of the photos from the Miss President series depict Park Geun-Hye from behind, and with her face hidden to the viewer of the image. This choice of approach was chosen in order to show viewers a side of Park Geun-Hye that usually is not seen, the side from which the world is viewed by her. What brings out even more from the series and makes it all the more special is that these images were captured prior to Geun-Hye became the president. Given the fact of how difficult images similar to these are to capture nowadays, the images holds an even higher value.

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