My Sweet Home

• Prize
• Photographer
  Jisun Choi, United Kingdom

My work is premised on observations related to human and it is
linked to their uncertain emotions. Human beings are imperfect
creatures. We are born with the possibility of being both rational
and irrational. The irrational belief about a certain factor can soon
become anxiety. As a psychological state of fear or uneasiness,
anxiety is common among people who live in this rapidly changing
and tremendously competitive modern society. Dealing with various
situations in daily life, however, we often find ourselves distressed
by causeless anxieties. When such worry becomes excessive, it
tends to place us under the influence of mental disorders, so-called
phobias, or behavioral habits at least. In the project, My Sweet
Home, I intend to share my experiences and thoughts about mental
issue. By photographing myself together with juxtaposed props in
the home environment, I depict different types of anxiety that I
have become accustomed to in my own private life. For me, home
is so sweet because it may be the safest place where I can freely
expose my secret habits of anxiety with no extra worry about other
people’s observations. Being alone, being in my own space has the
convenience of it not being necessary to decorate me or act
exaggeratedly because of self consciousness regarding other
people. At the same time, however, what I have to face inside
myself due to the convenience is also scary – I have to be
confronted with myself without space to escape. I reveal modern
people’s anxious state of mind through my space which exposes my
anxiety accumulated over a long period without any filters. In order
to visualize the ideas, I precisely designed and installed sets
resembling private places, and acted as a sufferer of daily fear.

PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris Photography Awards

Awards PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris Photography Awards