Two Untitled Photos
By Pangya Hunhaboon
Artist’s Statement: Untitled Photo 1
Currently, we live in a world that is very rushed, and we often forget to slow down and appreciate the small things. I wanted everyone who saw my photograph to feel a sense of nostalgia and belonging. Us students are so focused on the future—What college will I get into? When can I find a job?—but how can we appreciate what we have around us right now if we’re always looking ahead?
I used a soft focus and dull plain colours. This scene reminds me of looking into my grandparents’ room with the sun rising through the window.
Artist’s Statement: Untitled Photo 2
My work depicts the relationship between nature and human design, how ultimately, nothing is safe from the inevitable forces of nature that respond to what we build.
This photograph captures a moment between a car and the ice that has formed around it. A simple image, at first glance. But look closer, and consider everything that had to be true for this exact moment to exist: The placement of the car, its orientation, the particular weathering of its surfaces, the temperature, the moisture, the time. By tomorrow, it will be impossible to replicate exactly the way it is now. We live alongside a natural world that is equally complex as ours.
Pangya Hunhaboon is 15 years old, born and raised in Maryland. He loves the ocean and anything aquatic and hates capitalism and American imperialism.
