Studying in his final year at Leeds College of Art, Paul Phung is a unique talent who will no doubt find high profile commissions commonplace in the coming months, thanks to his brooding, documentary style images that evoke intrigue and emotion. His Flickr photostream – Paul hasn’t found the time to develop his own website yet – features, along with a stream of experimental photography, two key themes. Firstly his eerily atmospheric “night and smoke project”, a series of images for which Phung is as we speak compiling a zine of…. largely inspired by music, and in particular the “dark ambient and drowning sounds” of punishing post-metal experimentalist’s Sunn O))), the images are dark, mysterious portraits with a claustrophobic sense of impending doom.
The other ‘project’ is Phung’s personal diary work… a style associated with the likes of Muzi Quawson and Ryan Mcginley, this documentary approach gives a voyeuristic, gritty look into his own memories, and of a society that moves around him, oblivious to emotions we feel through their eyes…..
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