Contemporary images and their many interpretations

Contemporary images and their many interpretations

2025-04-23

A new exhibition exploring the evolution of reportage photography is currently being held at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum. It features works by renowned artists from Taiwan and around the world. FTV reporter Stephany Yang spoke to the photographers to learn more about what they do.

Chou Ching-hui’s series of works centers around stories of children with disabilities. Chou spent several years interviewing 70 families, children, teachers, and volunteers. Before shooting, he listened to the transcripts, created hand-drawn sketches, wrote scripts, and selected props. He completed an installation of large-scale composite images telling the stories of children with disabilities and their families and teachers. Visitors can put on a headset and listen to audio recordings of the interviews.

Chou Ching-hui
Photographer
This work combined audio of interviews with parents telling their own stories. My work started from interviews. When I was working on this project, I interviewed more than 70 families, as well as special education teachers, psychologists, and family members. After the interviews, I typed it into a manuscript, which has 760,000 words. I then grouped the 760,000 words into topics about education, how to face life and death, and religion. Each photo combined the stories of five or six families. It mainly discusses some of the difficulties faced by families with mental disabilities in this society, how they face medical treatment, how they face death, and how they face religion.

Hsieh San-tai spent several years on Green Island, shooting the untold stories of political prisoners and prisoners of conscience on Green Island in the 1950s.

Hsieh San-tai
Photographer
For around two years or so, I photographed over 80 victims of political persecution in Taiwan. When photographing political prisoners, many of them didn’t trust each other and were even divided because they had been forced to confess and were tortured. The imprisonment of so many people, especially during the transitional justice in Taiwan at that time, is a very important part of the history of Taiwan.

A new exhibition exploring the evolution of reportage photography is currently on display at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum. Ranging from the analog era to the digital age, the exhibition examines the impact of technology on image content and production.

Sharleen Yu
Curator
The exhibition focuses on contemporary real-time images, how it began with reportage photography, which focuses on contemporary issues, and then gradually declined as a result of the rapid advancement of science and technology. You can see many manifestations of contemporary image creation in the exhibition, including photography, photography installations, and action plans from photographic perspectives. I think you can feel the power of images as photography became a part of contemporary art creation.

The "Theater of the Times: Contemporary Images and Their Many Interpretations" exhibition is currently being held at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum until July 13.

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北美館「時代劇場」探索當代攝影的演變

2025-04-23

台北市立美術館舉辦一場報導攝影的展覽「時代劇場：當代影像的複數演繹」。展覽展出了來自台灣和世界各地知名藝術家的作品。一起來看看!

周慶輝的一系列作品，主要圍繞著身心障礙兒童的故事。周慶輝花了數年時間訪問了70個家庭、兒童、老師和志工。拍攝前，他聽記錄稿、畫手繪草圖、寫劇本、選道具。他完成了一個大型合成圖像裝置，講述了心障礙兒童及家人和老師的故事。民眾可以戴上耳機聆聽訪談的錄音。

[[台灣藝術家周慶輝]]
"這次會結合聲音，由家長的訪談來講述他們自己的故事。我的作品是從訪談開始，當時在做這個計劃的時候，訪談70多個家庭，包括特教老師、心理醫生、抱括家庭。訪談了以後，我把他打成了逐字稿，有76萬字，再從76萬字裡面去歸類談的是教育，如何面對生死跟宗教。我做分類，每張照片的結合了五六個家庭的故事，主要是在探討心智障礙家庭他們在這個社會上面臨的一些困境，他們如何面對醫療，還有他們如何面對死亡，還有如何面對宗教”

謝三泰在綠島，拍攝了1950年代綠島上政治犯和良心犯不為人知的故事。

[[藝術家謝三泰]]
"我拍攝將近兩年的時間，拍攝了80幾個台灣的政治受難者的一些前輩。拍攝政治犯的同時，很多政治犯彼此會不信任，甚至被分化，也是因為他們曾經被逼供，被嚴刑拷打。關押了這麼多人，尤其是在台灣當時的轉型正義，這都是台灣非常重要的歷史”

臺北市立美術館舉辦一場關於報導攝影演變的展覽，從模擬時代到數位時代，探討了科技對圖像內容和製作的影響。

[[策展人余思穎]]
"關注當代即時影像，如何從關注於時代議題的報導攝影，然後在科技快速進展下，逐漸的式微。大家可以在裡面看到很多當代影像創作的表現，包括攝影，攝影裝置、攝影觀點的行動計劃。我覺得大家可以從裡面可以感受到攝影成為當代藝術創作一環所顯現的影像力量"

「時代劇場：當代影像的複數演繹」在台北市立美術館展出，展期至7月13日。

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