Captured Nostalgia

• Photographer
  Yong Hoon, Kim, Korea, Republic of
• Studio
  yong hoon kim

The modern ability to mass produce in the end of the nineteenth
century became a turning point for the history of mankind.
This new word modern brought about a revolution in the way
people lived, ate, and clothed.
This gave us great comfort in life, and gave us a starting point to
keep inventing new machines.
This comfort from using machines made us lazy, and compared to
the people a century ago, we are overly promoting comfort over
anything else.
But such new things from the modern world had to fade away with
the growth of modern civilization.
My work can be described as a scent of regret left by things that
have dissapeared, and is currently disappearing.
People believe smart phones and devices are making our lives
easier and fuller, but they have become objects that make humans
forget their value of existence.
People of today can communicate with strangers over social
network and is able to follow up with them using the internet.
But when we see ourselves getting used to the images of people
communicating over smart phones instead of actually conversing
with people they are with, we can feel the absense of the true value
of communication.
My Work is an attempt to trace back our foot steps to things that
were once dear to us, and valuable to us, but time has made them
lose their place and is deep forgotten.
The goal of my work is to re-live the feelings that have been fading
away from our memories through the subjects in the photo, like a
poet writing a poem from seeing an everyday object.