Voices of Photography 攝影之聲
Issue 3 : 走出現實 Walk out from reality
When the reality in the society becomes more surreal than the surreal and the imagined far more real than reality, sometimes we can’t help but wonder: what is the world we live in like? Photography used to be entrusted with the function of “recording the truths and reality”, how could it escape from the ironic world of illusionary images? This time, we will try and explore the real and the surreal in photography.
In this issue of Voices of Photography, Japanese artist Yumiko Utsu challenges the world that is filled with desires with colorful yet eccentric still-life collages; Daisuke Yokota uncovers everyday life memories from his personal photographs and transform them into vague images of sound similar to psychedelic music; Taiwanese artist Chen Shun-Chu combines ceramic tiles and old family photographs into a language of images, rewriting the journals of time deep inside his heart; French artists Thomas Rousset and Raphaël Verona create a stage of magical reality, where the real and the imaginary are interwoven together; Chinese photographer Shen Yang constructs imagined spaces and visual experiences of agitation using the contrast between disproportionate and displaced city monsters. In the Artist’s Showcase, we reviewed Photographer Chang Chao-Tang’s 1989 classic “Notes About the Non-images” and revisits his 1970-1980 notes that transcend reality and dreams, together with his philosophy about photography. The real surrealism, as it turns out, exists in the snapshots of the reality itself.
