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Soo Kim’s West Adams studio of a decade doesn’t have WiFi or hot water, and since the pandemic, she has preferred to work alone on her labor-intensive cut photographic works. But her practice isn’t ascetic, and her approach is less precious or meticulous than the finished works suggest. The strands remaining after the swipe of Kim’s X-acto blade form intricate, topographic lattices—the absences in the photographic images as important as what remains.
“I don’t keep track of how long it takes to make a work. I’m not concerned with the time or labor involved in making it. I know it takes a long time, and I enjoy it.”
“Usually, if I make a mistake in cutting, I throw it away and start again. Sometimes, a mistake leads me somewhere else. Having a plan and following it isn’t that interesting to me.”
“I had to overcome the preciousness of the perfect print in order to find comfort in cutting into the photograph. Cautiousness or timidity wouldn’t work in the kind of photographs I wanted to make.”
This photo essay was originally published in Carla issue 36.