21st century self-portrait


  • Photographer
    Lamuel Chung
  • Prize
    3rd Place / People/Self-Portrait, 3rd Place / Fine Art/Portrait
  • Date of Photograph
    20/4/2017

With the emergence of multi-device technology, smart phone has become our most intimate machine ever in human history. People nowadays can hardly “survive” without using their smart phones. It has changed the way of how we perceive and communicate with the material world. We now speak through the social networking sites and observe through the lens at the back of the phone. As the world perceived from smartphones is different from real-life experiences, people act, think and speak differently with their phone. The increasing reliance on digital devices reinforces the inconsistence and creates tension between the two perceptions; therefore tearing the self apart. We have become unfamiliar with our own self. The splitting of mind and alienation of individual self become one of the biggest challenges brought by progressive modernity nowadays. The self-portrait hopes to draw concerns on how “the self” is being manipulated and constructed by technology.

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