美女摄影师米鲁金在城市废墟中裸体自拍《裸体城市的忧郁》。

30岁的美女摄影师米鲁金（Miru Kim）以一系列在城市废墟中的裸体自拍成名，在名为《裸体城市的忧郁》(Naked City）作品中，她全身裸体闯入被人们遗忘的废墟，盼以格格不入的强烈对比，重新赋于曾经热闹的废弃建物生命力。

米鲁金原是纽约医学院的学生，2004年时，她开始勇敢的褪下衣衫、全球跑透透，以自身的裸体结合城市的废墟，构组出一种荒凉、孤寂、被遗弃的美感。这些地方包括古老废弃的火车站、隧道、下水道、墓穴、工厂、医院甚至是停尸间，她甚至曾裸体躺在成堆死人骨头上。

据她自述，这种动机源自她从小就缺乏安全感。怕黑、怕脏、怕危险的活动。因此希望藉着这项行动艺术，克服自己的恐惧。米鲁金她说：「到了後来，它己超越了治疗。因为通过艺术，我跟无数经历过克服恐惧的折磨的人，有了『曾一起走过』的认同。」

当然，她这项活动其实也是充满危险的。在漫长的拍摄旅程中，为了一张好照片，她曾碰上尸体、遭遇过一个精神分裂的流浪汉、曾被警卫在地铁隧道追跑、以及在纽约曼哈顿大桥上一丝不挂的躲避直升机的追逐。有一次她在土耳其的伊斯坦堡拍摄，由於是保守的伊斯兰教国家，让她差一点遭到逮捕。

不过米鲁金这种「真实的勇气」亦为她赢得了奖赏。如今她已成为国际知名的艺术家和摄影家，作品受到很大的肯定。

She's shy and unassuming, but her work, taking photographs of herself naked, is gaining her a worldwide reputation as a provocative artist admired by art experts and casual viewers alike.

Miru Kim, a former medical student from New York, goes to strange places such abandoned factories, tunnels, bridges and photographs the structures with her in the picture nude.

The 30-year-old said her work has been a way of conquering her fears.

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Turkish delight: Artist Miru Kim has earned international acclaim by taking photos of herself in the nude in unusual spots such as this area of Istanbul

She said: 'My work in general involves getting over my fears that are deeply embedded since childhood: Fear of darkness, fear of dangerous activities in general, and fear of dirt - I had a considerable obsessive compulsive disorder as a child.

'It's beyond therapeutic. I do this through art, because I identify with countless other people who go through the emotions of overcoming fears.'

'I have always been timid since childhood. Most people may think I'm joking considering my work, but it's true.

Urban decay: Miru in the Revere Sugar Factory in Brooklyn, New York

'When I spoke at a technology, entertainment and design conference in 2008 I had to cross my leg and my arms because they were shaking so much.'

Miss Kim started taking her clothes off in 2004.

'Now I'm used to it, but when I first tried to be nude in front of camera in 2004 I was very nervous,' she said.

View from above: Playing with danger on the Williamsburg Bridge in New York

'I remember, in order to get used to being nude for my project's sake, I modelled for a nude portrait for a painter in Berlin, who was my studio mate at the time, and I got so nervous I couldn't stand still.

She told AOL Weird News: 'As I got used to being naked in urban ruins, I felt these spaces transform from dangerous to peaceful, from stranger to familiar.'

Miss Kim has put herself into what some people who regardv as dangerous situations.

In the process of getting a good nude shot, she's found a dead body, run in to a schizophrenic homeless man, ran away from security guards in subway tunnels and dodged a helicopter while standing nude on the Manhattan Bridge in New York.

High above the metropolis: Miru conquers her fears by putting herself in dangerous situations

She also risked arrest by stripping in Istanbul, Turkey.

Miss Kim said: 'I was with a Turkish fashion photographer shooting at an abandoned train depot by the active train station. Angry guards came to us, but my friend was a very smooth talker and got us out of there.

'The guards apparently thought that he was shooting some kind of soft-core in public, which doesn't happen often in Muslim countries.'

'Another time I was in a poor residential area and a Turkish filmmaker friend was helping me in an abandoned house and we got seen by some residents nearby.

Among the rubble: Naked in the shadow of a mosque on the hill overlooking Sulukule area of Istanbul

'He told one nosy old lady that he was from the military police and that she shouldn't question what we are doing.'

The woman later returned and shouted: 'What are you doing with a naked woman if you're from the military police? We're calling the police.'

Miss Kim packed up her stuff and ran.

She did a project entitled The Pig Therefore I Am which involved crawling around in a pig pen.

Miss Kim said: 'I got many bruises from bites. They were being very curious and gentle with me overall, probably because they didn't understand why I was naked with them.

Exotic beauty: Miru admires the beautiful nightscape in Istanbul

'They probably thought, "She looks like us, but not quite!" But even the curious nibbles got me bad bruises.'

'The worst part was washing myself afterwards,' she said.

'These hogs are confined in such an unnatural setting that their manure becomes a concentrated toxic waste.

'Imagine 2,400 hogs in one barn pooping and peeing for six months without getting washed.

'I scrubbed myself red with white vinegar after the shoot and I tried everything from peroxide to toothpaste on my feet.'

Miss Kim's work has been acclaimed by serious art critics, but casual viewers may look at it in a different way.

That, however, doesn't bother Miss Kim.

'People have different interpretations of my work, and I like that flexibility and openness,' she said.

'The figures in the photos work as a direct sensory link between the space in the photograph and the audience, because everyone can relate to skin on a very basic human level, the sense of touch.'