honorable mention
Kuo-Chen Jung united states
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Where: Home
Why: I consider the desire, vulnerability, and pain of our most intimate relationships. I also want to explore the inner conflicts and emotions that arise in such situations and create metaphorical versions of those micronarratives in photo formats. The images have a starkness and definitive framing that pushes against a tumultuous questioning just beneath the surface.
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When: 20160520Where: Home
Why: I consider the desire, vulnerability, and pain of our most intimate relationships. I also want to explore the inner conflicts and emotions that arise in such situations and create metaphorical versions of those micronarratives in photo formats. The images have a starkness and definitive framing that pushes against a tumultuous questioning just beneath the surface.
about the photographer
The balance of logic and emotion is a major part of my life. I have been a scientist for more than ten years, so I am always dealing with problems by way of experiments, rationality, and logic—the fundamentals in the field of science. However, as time has gone by, I have begun to feel the desire to understanding the part within me that can’t be controlled or explained by logic. More specifically, I am fascinated by the battle of complex emotions produced during the tangled growth of my intimate relationship with my partner. German psychologist and philosopher Erich Fromm once wrote, “Their love is, in fact, an egotism à deux; they are two people who identify themselves with each other, and who solve the problem of separateness by enlarging the single individual into two.”back to gallery