Funerary Portraits for Those Who Can't Afford Them

Portraits are required at conventional South Korean funerals. But in a country where over half of the elderly population live below the poverty line, more Koreans can’t even afford that. Here’s a photographer who offered to take free portraits of the seniors in Jongno, Seoul.Cover image: Funerary portraits by Kim Kwang-an. (Source: Courtesy of Kim Kwang-an)*Read more about the lives of the elderly in South Korea, a country where around half of the elderly population live below the poverty line: