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How to humanize and preserve the abandoned underground spaces of New York

How do you humanize and preserve the abandoned underground spaces of New York? If you are artist and urban explorer Miru Kim, here’s what you do:

Kim explores industrial ruins underneath New York and then photographs herself in them, nude — to bring these massive, dangerous, hidden spaces into sharp focus.

Kim was featured at a recent TED talk.  I was skeptical when I first read about her concept, but now I’m sold.

Ebonmuse previously posted on another artist’s impressive urban spelunking, minus the beautiful nude woman.  See here.

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Erich Vieth is an iconoclastic attorney, musician and writer living in the Shaw neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri. He and his wife Anne Jay have two daughters, aged 9 and 11.

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