Fearing Death, and Photographing the Rituals That Surround It – The New York Times

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Fearing Death, and Photographing the Rituals That Surround It

After the death of his parents, Chanho Park was left bereft. He started taking photographs and felt himself drawn to traditional Korean funerals and religious rites.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/30/lens/photographing-death-rituals-korea.html

The Korean photographer Chanho Park’s fixation took root when he was 11 and his mother, who suffered from pancreatic cancer, was hospitalized. Much of his time was spent at her side, where he heard the anguished screams of the dying and their mourning families and saw the beds of gaunt patients become empty from one day to the next.