In this blog, I am going to blog about my favorite
photographer. As I mentioned a little
bit about him in the previous blog, he was the person that my friend and I met
when we came to the mountain to take photos.
Almost
of people in my hometown
know him because of his fame. His
nickname is MPK which stands for Michel Phuoc Khung in Vietnamese
language
and it means crazy Michel Phuoc. People call him crazy because of the
way he is. He has a long hair and dresses in street style. He doesn’t
have a
house, because he never stays in one place. Sometimes he stays on his
friends’ house, sometimes in a hotel. He spends almost of his times to
walk
around and find subjects to take photos of them. People know him because
of his
craziness. He just does whatever he wants and doesn’t care what other
thinks
about that. Sometimes, he stays all night long in the mountains to wait
the
movement of the sun rising in the morning. Sometimes, he sleeps in the
forest
and waits for the appearance of small bugs coming out their cave to eat
or
drink fog water.
Even though
he has an old camera, and the lens he made by
himself, but he took a lot of wonderful photos. The best thing at him
that I admire a lot is that he makes the lens by himself. He collects
pieces of glasses and put them into a tube and uses it like a lens.
Every two or three
years, he uses all the money that he saves to open the gallery to show
his photos.
His photos contain a lot of emotions that impress the viewers. The
topics of
his photos are close to the normal life. When I look at his photos, I
have a
special feeling and I don’t know how to explain that. Now, I’d like to
share
some photos in his latest album. The subjects in the album were the
resin from the pine trees. The name of the topic is bleeding. He gave
the
title of the topic like that because people keep cutting down the trees
to get
more spaces to build houses, and bleeding means that people hurt the
trees, and
the forest.
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| MPK and a photo in the "Bleeding" Gallerry |
Photos Credits: MPK
Now *that* was an amazing story! MPK sounds like a real character, but someone that you hope to meet at least once in a lifetime.
ReplyDeleteI am curious: does he do any refining on the lenses he "finds"? I wonder, if he just uses the glass he picks up, aren't there imperfections in that that can affect an image? The reason I ask is that I don't see any visual indications of anything other than a fantastic eye and amazing skill.
I wonder, are there any web resources for MPK that you can link us to?