The German photographer conveyed the “visibility of time” through shattering Chinese figurines

Through high-speed photography, the German photographer Martin Klimas captures the split second a pair of Chinese porcelain figurines break and shatter on the ground. The perfectly timed images look like earth-shattering battles. Klimas also captures singular ceramics artistically smashing into thousands of pieces.
“I found the Kung-Fu Figurines at a Chinese Supermarket around the corner. It gives the work a really good turn and I let them fall in pairs to get the intention of a fight between them,” he commented in the interview.
Aside from the striking visuals that Klimas produces, the broken figurines symbolize time made visible. He is “obsessed” with this notion because it encapsulates the idea into a single image. “To catch something out of the flow of time, to find the perfect moment” he explains, “is what photographers are forever looking for.”