amosphere

Photography captures the appearance of certain event or people in time, but the emotion or feeling of that moment can never be reproduced. Such as childhood memory, the harder you try to remember, the easier you will forget.

This book is about my past experience working in an remote elementary school in Taiwan. The school is located in an industrial district, and it's surrounded by factories and various pollution. People who lives there are mostly disadvantaged and vulnerable groups in our society. They face different difficulties such as unemployment, lower income, grand-parenting, and so on. However, children in the school don’t seem sad or insecure.

Spending time with those children for a year is an unique experience to me. I became more aware to different social issues and cared more about our surroundings since then. After 8 years has passed, I can hardly recall those children’s appearance, but I still miss their optimistic attitude and true character.

By altering the color or causing partial damage to the the photographs, I try to collide the restless enviornemt and social condition with children’s true nature. Also I want to preserve/ recreate   childhood memory that could have been lost in time.

・ year：2017

・ size：125 x 175 mm

・ page：68 pages

・ limited edition：200

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