Heun Jung Kim

Untitled - Portrait of Black African Women in London by Korean Photographer

2019

"Salle Sauvage" is part of international artist, Natalie Lennard's series Birth Undisturbed. “The bearing of children ought to become as free from danger and long debility to civilised woman as it is to the savage.”— Thomas Huxley ‘Salle Sauvage’ translates to ‘primitive room’, a term coined by renowned obstretician Michel Odent in reference to his hospital in Pithiviers, France, with rooms designed to accommodate the primal instincts of labouring women. Here, a glass Cube set within the urban landscape of London becomes a metaphor for Odent’s primitive room and a woman’s connection with nature through homebirth. It is as though the walls of a living room have become transparent admitting our spectatorship into the private space of a birthing woman, perhaps for our enlightenment as well as vicariousness. “Buscar la forma” say the women of the Yucatan in Mexico, meaning to find your style, in contrast to the Western medical model...

"Creation of Man" is part of international artist Natalie Lennard's series Birth Undisturbed. “The human species is no more unsuited to give birth than any other of the 5000 species of mammals on the planet. The birth-giving woman is the central agent in the ancient drama of bringing forth new life.” — Ina May Gaskin. Every year we celebrate a natural birth, a story that takes place in the most primitive surroundings. Mary, giving birth to the Son of God in a stable, that infamous image portrayed recurrently in our culture, familiar to even the non-religious. Yet how is it that beyond Julius Garibaldi’s 1891 painting...

"Aquadural" is part of international artist Natalie Lennard's series Birth Undisturbed. - See our storefront at Gallery 1202 for the other works in this series “The baby doesn’t co...

"Call to Prayer" is the latest photograph in the award-winning series 'Birth Undisturbed' by British photographer Natalie Lennard. The series travels through time and space to show t...

"Art is Dead" (FRAMED) Photography 36" x 36" inch Edition 2/7 by Brendan North Size framed: 41" x 41" inch Other sizes available per request ABOUT: Brendan North is a fine art phot...

"Fragile" (FRAMED) Photography 34" x 28" inch Edition 1/7 by Brendan North Size framed: 38" x 32" inch Other sizes available per request ABOUT: Brendan North is a fine art photogra...

"Product of War" Photography 24" x 36" inch Edition of 7 by Brendan North ships rolled in a tube ABOUT: Brendan North is a fine art photographer based in Los Angeles. Having built ...

This ethereal underwater fine art photograph captures a figure suspended above submerged pool steps, rendered in soft aquamarine and pearl tones. The crystalline water creates a drea...