Kien Hoang
Moritz Broszat
Kien:
"Power is not just the ability to control people or events, but also the ability to influence the behavior of others or the process of events. The greatest, most destructive power for me is not physical strength, the ability to inflict damage to someone, nor the power that can control a country, instead it's strong emotions - or more specifically, regret. It is an unquenchable longing for impossible things, a nostalgia for something that is never going to happen. Those thoughts will always cling to us. The feeling of regret and the torment of what we could have done seems to eat away at us, and there is nothing we can do to fix those traumatic memories. Gradually regret creates depression, past mistakes cannot be let go of and grows to become a little mirror that you will constantly check behind your back."
"Power is not just the ability to control people or events, but also the ability to influence the behavior of others or the process of events. The greatest, most destructive power for me is not physical strength, the ability to inflict damage to someone, nor the power that can control a country, instead it's strong emotions - or more specifically, regret. It is an unquenchable longing for impossible things, a nostalgia for something that is never going to happen. Those thoughts will always cling to us. The feeling of regret and the torment of what we could have done seems to eat away at us, and there is nothing we can do to fix those traumatic memories. Gradually regret creates depression, past mistakes cannot be let go of and grows to become a little mirror that you will constantly check behind your back."
Moritz:
"The photographic medium is a powerful tool. It determines in an increasingly globalized society. With the passage of time, it loses a bit of quality these days, because the visual material almost floods our riding and the high input dulls our senses. Nevertheless, photography is an instrument of power insofar as it suggests a connection to reality and is thus given strong expression.
In the broadest sense, in my opinion, nature is the most powerful sublimity. The natural force will always take over as it can adapt. A characteristic that resembles a balancing act and goes hand in hand harmoniously. The world is ruled by fictional units that determine the construct of human life. However, all inventions are part of a temporary event that has established itself, but will not prevail against the natural force. So I photographed a tree trunk as an instance of natural continuity and produced the image to take up the complexity of nature and the ambiguity of the photographic medium."
"The photographic medium is a powerful tool. It determines in an increasingly globalized society. With the passage of time, it loses a bit of quality these days, because the visual material almost floods our riding and the high input dulls our senses. Nevertheless, photography is an instrument of power insofar as it suggests a connection to reality and is thus given strong expression.
In the broadest sense, in my opinion, nature is the most powerful sublimity. The natural force will always take over as it can adapt. A characteristic that resembles a balancing act and goes hand in hand harmoniously. The world is ruled by fictional units that determine the construct of human life. However, all inventions are part of a temporary event that has established itself, but will not prevail against the natural force. So I photographed a tree trunk as an instance of natural continuity and produced the image to take up the complexity of nature and the ambiguity of the photographic medium."