Shinwook Kim : in search of Nessie

The project In Search of Nessie began with the question of where and how a story began and how they might affect real life and culture. Loch Ness, a huge lake dating back to the Ice Age in Scotland’s Northern Highlands region, is also a mythical place that is widely known around the world, for the reason that it might be hosting a dinosaur-like creature – the Loch Ness monster, informally named “Nessie”.
The photographer Shinwook Kim does not intend to look for Nessie’s real existence, instead, he desires to uncover how invisible myths permeate an actual place and create a variety of devices, designed to imagine the myth through the surrounding landscape, characters and various archives. Through this work, he intends to find the elements of a myth that are created, spread, propagated, and maintained in a particular place.