CNN —Twenty-four floors up a Manhattan high rise, the photographer Ahn Jun sat on her windowsill one crisp day in 2008, dangling her leg precariously outside over the city.
In the self-portrait series, Ahn sat on roof corners and building ledges, sometimes showing her whole body perched on the edge; in others, just her legs and feet are visible above the straight vertical drop below.
It wasn’t a sudden interest in thrill-seeking behavior, but a more conceptual idea that Ahn was chasing: the sense of the void.
The first time she looked out over her apartment’s edge in Manhattan seemed to her to crystallize that feeling.
Soon, she was flooded with emails, Ahn explained, some with positive feedback, but others critical of her work, or sexually harassing her.
Persons:
CNN —, Ahn Jun, Ahn, “, ”, she’d, who’d
Organizations:
CNN, South, Pratt Institute, British, of, Guardian, Paris, Museum of Photography, Hongik University
Locations:
Manhattan, South Korean, Brooklyn, New York, Seoul, Korea, Hong Kong, Daegu, South Korea, she’ll, Nara, Japan