15-year-old Austrian photographer David Uzochukwu creates surreal, expressive portraits that explore his emotions.
Like his peer Zev Hoover, he possesses an eye for composition and mood, crafting powerful, atmospheric images that exude a maturity far beyond his tender age.
With eyes closed and hunched over, the models in his photographs evoke feelings of vulnerability, anxiety, doubt and loneliness.
Uzochukwu picked up photography as a curious 10-year-old playing with his mother’s point-and-shoot.
“I love to tell stories and to convey certain feelings and emotions in an image... What really intrigues me is that photography—like all other art forms—can be so universal that you can be touched by a picture that someone else has created. Furthermore you can make the images in your head become reality. This amazes me again and again,” he said in an interview with Flickr Blog’s 20under20 series.
View more of his work at his website and Flickr page.
[via My Modern Met and 20under20 series, images via David Uzochukwu]