honorable mention
Ko Mumu
title
Acting
Started from the day I came back, it was a really interesting shooting experience.
Everyday from 2 pm until 2 am, we stayed together in this “dark cage”
I’m like a hunter, waiting for my moments.
This is a group I have never met before, they’re all16-20 years kids coming from different minority groups of Yunnan, You can’t find the robotlish like Japanese, you can’t find the complication like Argentine, they’re completely raw, wild, like diamond in the rough, coming out from the earth.
This is also the first time I shoot dance troupe, after couple days of shooting, I found my contradiction, should I shoot the acted one in the show or the real one without acting? One perfect and beautiful, one real or even ugly. I started to prone to later.
Looking for the real moment from a show, it’s kind of ridicules.
In stage still, they’re these carved props.
In my lens, I’m looking for the uncut, unconscious moments of human beings.
A good actor takes days of practice for one step, one looking.
A good photo takes days of waiting and gelling.
It’s a process from taking sneak photos using long-focus till you can click the shutter in front of them freely.
From knowing nothing about each other until I can snap the moments according to their look, their personality, their behaviors.
In the end I realized that there’s no so-called 100% acting or self.
We’re all acting somehow, someone like ourselves.
This moment you’re acting 30% of someone else, 70% being yourself.
Next moment you’re acting 90% of yourself.
As she was achieving great success in Japan, she decided to give up everything and come to Argentina for another adventure.
It’ s hard to find a regional culture that defines her, or maybe she is a mix of all different cultures.
Speaking of her own word, “experience” is the most important thing in her life.
And among all the people I know, she is the only one who is truly applies it into her way of living.
Everyone dreams about what their perfect life would be, but not everyone can truly give up everything and follow their heart.
So the photo you’ re going to see is not about magnificent architecture or landscape,
only a world from a different angle ‒ an angle of an global nomad.
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entry description
It’s actually the first time I shoot something about China.Started from the day I came back, it was a really interesting shooting experience.
Everyday from 2 pm until 2 am, we stayed together in this “dark cage”
I’m like a hunter, waiting for my moments.
This is a group I have never met before, they’re all16-20 years kids coming from different minority groups of Yunnan, You can’t find the robotlish like Japanese, you can’t find the complication like Argentine, they’re completely raw, wild, like diamond in the rough, coming out from the earth.
This is also the first time I shoot dance troupe, after couple days of shooting, I found my contradiction, should I shoot the acted one in the show or the real one without acting? One perfect and beautiful, one real or even ugly. I started to prone to later.
Looking for the real moment from a show, it’s kind of ridicules.
In stage still, they’re these carved props.
In my lens, I’m looking for the uncut, unconscious moments of human beings.
A good actor takes days of practice for one step, one looking.
A good photo takes days of waiting and gelling.
It’s a process from taking sneak photos using long-focus till you can click the shutter in front of them freely.
From knowing nothing about each other until I can snap the moments according to their look, their personality, their behaviors.
In the end I realized that there’s no so-called 100% acting or self.
We’re all acting somehow, someone like ourselves.
This moment you’re acting 30% of someone else, 70% being yourself.
Next moment you’re acting 90% of yourself.
about the photographer
Mumu Ko, Born in China, Mumu studied film and sociology in Japan, then started to travel the world when she was 18.As she was achieving great success in Japan, she decided to give up everything and come to Argentina for another adventure.
It’ s hard to find a regional culture that defines her, or maybe she is a mix of all different cultures.
Speaking of her own word, “experience” is the most important thing in her life.
And among all the people I know, she is the only one who is truly applies it into her way of living.
Everyone dreams about what their perfect life would be, but not everyone can truly give up everything and follow their heart.
So the photo you’ re going to see is not about magnificent architecture or landscape,
only a world from a different angle ‒ an angle of an global nomad.
back to gallery