Red House / 붉은 틀
Suntag Noh / 노순택
Self Published
English and Korean
Hardcover
221 pages
240×240 mm
2007
ISBN: 978-8-99249-221-8
Noh Suntag captures violence in Korean Society, showing how it drives towards brutality and savagery. Red House focuses on the pursuit of power and suppression stemming from the political division of the Korean peninsula.
Korean photographer NOH Suntag (1971 in Seoul), who works in both North and South Korea, is interested in the ambivalences and breaches within and between these two societies: their mirroring relationship, the military presence and ideological extremes on both sides, the relationship between the individual and the masses, and violent situations that penetrate everyday life in the South as well as the North, which are as subtle as they are open.
This ambivalence finds its counterpart in NOH’s unconventional photographic aesthetics, which combines the documentary with the fictional, the snapshot with strict composition. His series of black-and-white as well as color photographs, which are usually developed over a number of years, scrutinize the conflict situations in contemporary Korean society. The image of Korea NOH develops in the process is one of a permanent state of emergency.
