Entry Title: " Suteki da Ne"
Name: Eric Chang, United States
Category: Non-Professional, Wedding


Entry Description: These are some of the wedding pictures of Michelle & Andre. There are a total of 111 different themes of the couple's portraits that was taken in a period of 10-months worth of production. Shots covering different themes; from James Bond to the Phantom of the Opera, from Alladin to famous Japanese anime Samurai X, from Tarzan to Titanic, from Cowboys to the Matrix, and many more...

The project was titled 'Suteki da Ne' (Japanese) which means 'Isn't it Beautiful' (in English). The works was exhibited with over 300 pictures, awarded to be the first in the world; showcasing 111 different themes of the couple’s portraits. They were showcased exclusively at the Shangri-La Hotel Ballrooms in Indonesia and published in a very limited edition photo books.

I work in the subliminal space between the cinematic and the photographic. My art, whether cinema or photography, explores extreme opposites and strives to merge them into a single, cohesive expression. The works are darkly romantic, often evoking a sense of insecurity and danger in the observer. It's the ambivalence, mystery and intensity inherent in the works that generates an unsettling energy that I find beautiful and challenging. I strive to create images that simultaneously represent loneliness, solitude, harmony, dissonance. I see myself as a visual storyteller. I find a rupture in the story and freeze the unfinished storyline, distorting visual concept to create works that are intense, dramatic and mysterious.