In mural-scale portraits of high schoolers, soldiers, and other social types, Oh subtly dramatizes tensions between collective and personal identity in Korean society.
In his black-and-white photographs, Oh creates a record of the denizens of Itaewon, a district known for glamorous outsiders of all kinds.
Aperture’s issue on craft features photographers who make pictures the slow way—building camera obscuras, creating photograms, and laboring in traditional darkrooms to make handmade, unrepeatable forms.