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張曉的作品是短促而集中的，他少有凝視，並迅速按下快門，在稍縱即逝的時間縫隙裏，他用閃光燈打亮了中心部分，暗角四面圍上，嫵媚、夢幻、怪異而豔俗的舞臺便已落成，他看著他們在這舞臺之上，上演日常現實裏的荒誕劇。在張曉按下快門的那時候，就意味著他與世界的關係已經確定：他必然要面對這輛荒涼快車裏超現實的離奇的炫彩部分，並和與之相對的偽裝的耀眼部分做出決裂。這是他感同身受的現實寫真。
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由多位香港攝影人合作創立、即將在香港九龍觀塘開幕的「The Salt Yard」，是一個以攝影圖像作品為主的獨立藝文展覽空間。將在明年(2013)1月以俄國新銳攝影師聯展正式揭開序幕，此後將定期挑選香港及海外攝影師的作品展出，嘗試從各類風格流派中，探討現今世界的生存狀態、不同地域的生活文化與意識形態的啟示。「The Salt Yard」同時也是一個非主流攝影刊物的銷售據點，包括攝影家個人出版的攝影集，以及在香港主流書店鮮有機會發現的攝影刊物，並是《Voices of Photography 攝影之聲》的雜誌新據點。
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生活就是這樣子，自己就是自己的作品，也許到死亡的那天，這個作品就完成了。
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Comments closedHistory and memories sometimes act like anchors, steadying the ships to a rest, but sometimes they need to be dusted off.
—Wang Ning-De
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怎樣的攝影具有政治性？這是一個難以清楚界定的問題，因為對「政治性」的定義或理解，可以嚴謹或寬鬆，而通過攝影表現政治話語的方式，則包羅萬象。不過，針對政治事件或者政治題材的照片，卻不一定有政治性。
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Comments closed2011年冬天的一個午後，我和陳順築約好見面，我們在台北長安西路上的一家地下室咖啡館坐了下來，對面的台北當代藝術館正在舉行他的個展。話匣子打開，我們聊到夜幕低垂才離去。這段訪談後來整理並收錄在隔年一月發行的《攝影之聲》第三期裡。
這兩年，陳順築發現自己罹癌，他辭去22年的教學工作專心養病。我們去看他，消瘦的身形卻讓他那雙深邃的雙眼，顯得更加巨大而清亮。他說，病後才更覺察到生命是極其有限的時間，而他或許可以放下很多事，但放不下藝術，關於創作，他還有好多想像，但可惡的時間在與他賽跑⋯⋯
2014年9月，陳順築的最後一個臉書動態，停留在照片裡的一個背影，他站得高高地，獨自面向一片粼粼波光。一個月後，他在夢中遠行，帶著他的鄉愁記憶，去一個更高的地方望海。
我們在已經絕版的雜誌中找出這篇三年多前的對話，並在本期重新刊載；同時收錄藝術家陳界仁與姚瑞中寫給順築的信，以及從他借給我們的自1989年起至近期的數本個人手札中，選錄了一些他的隨筆與塗鴉。他說，這些筆記是一個藝術家天真的私語，有些玩笑，有些認真⋯⋯
謹以此，作為我們對於陳順築的思念。
One winter afternoon in 2011, I met up with Chen Shun-Chu in a Taipei cafe on Chang-an West Road. His solo exhibition was then on-going in the Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei opposite the cafe. We chatted till late in the night. The interview was later published in the 3rd issue of VOP the next year.
Chen learnt about his cancer and quit the teaching profession that he had been in for 22 years. In these two years, he had been trying to fight the illness. We visited him and saw his frame becoming frail; his eyes seemed even deeper and larger as his body became thinner. He expressed that the illness had made him realize all the more that life is extremely short, and that he might not be able to hang on to a lot of things, but not art. He still had a lot of ideas about artistic creations, but time was against him……
His last Facebook status update in Sep 2014 was a photograph of a back shot, looking over the sea from a high fence. A month later, he passed away in his dreams,bringing with him all his memories and love of his motherland, setting off to an even greater height to gaze at the sea.
We extracted this from a conversation that is more than 3 years old which was featured in an out-of-print issue of Voices of Photography – re-published in this issue alongside letters to Chen Shun-Chu from artists Chen Chieh-Jen and Yao Jui-Chung, as well as some of his drawings and words from a huge stack of personal notebooks he’s kept since 1989 which he lent us. He said that these memos were an artist’s dreams: some were jokes, some were serious……
In memory of Chen Shun-Chu.