Statment:
In this series of photos, I seek the intersection between religious space and daily life. Through the glass, the arches, lights, and moments of human activities blend together, creating a multidimensional picture of faith and life. I want to invite viewers to enter that sacred, simple world, to feel the depth of architecture, of ritual, and most of all, the connection between people and the sacred space.
Spirit and style
Honoring architecture and ritual: Showing respect for religious heritage and spiritual values.
Focus on contrast: Using contrast between light and dark, inside and outside, sacred and everyday.
Connecting people and space: Each character, each moment contains a separate story, creating an overall picture of community and faith.
Open dialogue: Do not impose meaning, let viewers freely feel and reflect on the relationship between faith and the life around them. The series of photos has both a documentary tone and artistic implications. By interweaving religious and everyday perspectives, the work evokes many layers of meaning, from architectural beauty, solemn atmosphere to the closeness and simplicity of spiritual life.
Story:
When you hear a Catholic talk about their faith, with pure respect and love for Jesus, they will spend precious moments to pray, reflect on their ego or call it confession, they talk to God with a high sense of faith and deep gratitude to God. They have no fear of being judged by God for their sins because they believe that God is love. When they feel forgiveness and blessing or some kind of fulfillment, even an accident, sadness, they accept it as a calling, God has arranged everything.
Going to church helps each person leave their own living environment, leaving behind the hustle and bustle of life, to come to God's space. The inner sacredness appears unintentionally when people come here, sometimes helping someone feel peace, sometimes not feeling anything, sometimes just seeing it as a form.. So entering the house of God is within each person, can we fully understand God?
Once when I was doing a site survey to film a short film with a group of friends, we needed to find a dilapidated, old house, located in Bao Loc. This house was found near a Church, there was a household of four people including parents and two children currently studying in elementary school, the family was Catholic. We wanted to rent this house because it fit the criteria of the man's bedroom setting, of course the family agreed to help.
When the man was cleaning up his personal belongings, so that we could redesign the bedroom according to the scenario, I asked the man: "Sir, there are some things here that you might have forgotten (a rosary necklace with the symbol of the Cross and some books about the Bible...)?". The man replied: "I can't forget, where God is, I follow, if before going to sleep I don't read a page of the Bible and pray the Rosary, I will feel like I no longer exist, I will feel guilty towards God." I suddenly woke up, not knowing how to react or say anything, I think what he felt deep in his soul about God at that time was beyond the ability of the senses to perceive. Before leaving the house, he said: "God bless you all!".