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I am a photographer. My views on the art of photography are as follows Firm belief. Photography is an expression medium that relies on objects to speak. Without objects, there would be no work. Therefore, I believe that no matter how great a photographer is, he is only 50% a creator. The other 50% is given by the object. Respecting the object is the most basic ethics of photography. It is wrong to use the camera to exploit or vilify the object. Therefore, I hope that I will let the object be photographed. When people who arrive see the photo, they won’t exclaim: "How unlucky was it to be photographed by Ruan! / x |; C) c$ Q$ ^. G

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Why are everyone heading towards a dead end? Is it the closed mentality of the people of the island country? Is it the self-expansion of the politicians’ dream of independent nationhood? There is no self-confidence, and arrogance is used to cover up inferiority. What makes us regard electronic floats as Taiwan’s grassroots culture? What makes us cheer for the ugly Golden Thunder puppet show? What makes us cheer for Betel Nut? Making statues of Xi Tzu, treating rapists as heroes, treating villains as show-offs as mainstream, interpreting evil as good, treating ugliness as beauty, rationalizing lack of taste in the name of "alternative"... ? $ L) h v# U8 m- ^

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I remember when I first learned how to take pictures and traveled to Taiwan, the characters I saw through the lens, Every face is so kind and contented. The countryside scenery taken from the viewing window is so peaceful and harmonious. It was such a beautiful time in Taiwan! # A2 p2 A1 F6 m6 N, C! Z6 ]

" b7 Y- }. Hamp; `At that time, everyone worked hard and were full of hope for the future. Cultural workers took the pursuit of ideals as their ambition and their conscience as their direction. But what about now? As soon as I picked up the camera , I always see expressions full of resentment and looks dominated by materialistic desires. The villages and towns I visited before have already developed into chaotic mazes and markets of stacked houses. w! U0 l [ q b3 p ]3 f

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Just as everyone is preparing for the new millennium At that time, I also made a decision: to use creation to bid farewell to the homeland I once loved so much. However, on the eve of the opening of the exhibition, the September 21 earthquake shook me. ) K) p/ ~7 T* }! G1 [# f/ T2 P. [

# Z z* P0 R4 p G U I have walked through the towns and villages in Nantou and Taichung counties where the earthquake was the most severe, and some of them have even written reports and taken photos. Taken a lot of photos. Puli, Guoxing, Jiji, Zhushan, Shuili, Wujie, Caotun, Wufeng, Dongshi, Guguan... these places used to be so tolerant when I was young and loved to taste solitary travel. You accepted me! My upbringing and these places cannot be separated. I donated all the proceeds from the sales of the works in the four exhibitions to the "China Children and Family Support Foundation" as support funds for earthquake orphans. Then, I arranged a few days of travel and asked a student who was a victim of the earthquake to take care of him. I visited the disaster area to see what was left of the dream land in my memory. * L2 c5 J, M; a- D t |amp; H

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I remember that day, the car was parked in Taichung At the red light at the intersection of Guoguang Road and Daming Road in the city, a student pointed to the opposite street and said, "We will enter the disaster area from now on!" At this moment, I realized that the disaster area was much larger than I originally thought. times.

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" V/ ]! Q* [5 y; l4 @ Guided by the ruins along the way, I arrived at the building that had just been repaired but had not yet been inspected, but it had been The Lin Family Garden in Wufeng was razed to the ground, and then Caotun, Nantou, Puli... Step by step, when we came to the epicenter - the top of Jiufener Mountain in Nangang Village, Guoxing Township, I was already speechless, and my heart was filled with tears. Blood. P. g* r, E(y. _, z!?

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Back in Taipei, I feel Like disaster victims; although, I and all my relatives and friends did not suffer any physical injuries or major financial losses during this earthquake. Those images of families being torn apart and everything being destroyed made me lose sight of hope. When a person feels that he has lost hope, he simply does not know what to do next. 2 {' B: i4 e2 _; a$ R! m' L

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Just at that time, I received a call The phone call came from a friend I hadn’t seen for several years, music worker Li Shouquan. I thought he came to pay my respects to my exhibition because there is a portrait of him in "Famous People Anonymous". I didn't expect him to ask me for a favor.

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4 g}, z(Kamp; U9 e, @] At that time, I did not agree directly. I only agreed to meet Mr. Yao Renlu, the director of Daai TV Station. Talking to the producer Ms. Wang Li, the four of us were in the huge conference room that day. I told Mr. Yao frankly: "I think Taiwan will only get worse and worse, and it will never get better... I can't see anything. Hope..." s. v' j' k; c K q4 q8 t$ x

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Unexpectedly, this A devout Tzu Chi man replied with sincerity: "Not only Taiwan, but the development of every corner of the earth is in a state of collapse. If there is anything that can slow down the collapse, it is worth doing..." 9]5 T ’ , I will try to find hope, even if it is just a little bit!" V' N8 a" l： K2 l) D9 [ w

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A year has passed. Now if someone asks me: "What is your biggest feeling this year?" I will answer like this: "Thank you." 9 h. ^4 S( |1 {2 j0 B W8 K M

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The word "gratitude" has never appeared in my mouth or writing before. When I first heard it from Tzu Chi's mouth. I was very surprised when I said thank you to him and he replied "Thank you".

"Thank you" has been used by everyone and has become a common greeting, while "gratitude" is a strong word that cannot be repaid for any great favor. At first, I just attributed it to Tzu Chi people’s mantra, so I didn’t need to take it so seriously. But over the course of a year, I often said these two words inadvertently, and wrote these two words unknowingly. . {- u. H( W y6 c0 z

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I feel the change in myself, although so far, I am still afraid I don’t believe in any religion. Because it means that my spirit and soul are trapped in a fixed frame. I believe in the existence of God, but I am afraid of converting to any religion. I try to put my religious sentiments into practice. For my persistence and practice of ideals. Y/ [' C1 n4 u G" \$ g

1 F6 G6 [* W7 {" b* fI am a photographer. I have a firm belief in my view. Photography is a medium of expression that relies on objects to speak. Without objects, there would be no work. Therefore, I believe that no matter how great a photographer is, he or she is only 50% creative at best. Because the other 50% is given by the object. Respecting the object is the most basic ethics of photography. It is wrong to use the camera to exploit or vilify the object. When the people I photographed saw the photos, they would not say: "How unlucky was I to be photographed by Mr. Ruan! They made me look so ugly and timid..." If the people photographed by me would say : "Ruan shot me so energetically!" I will feel that all the hard work has been in vain, and I have received the greatest praise. 9 h6 E7 [2 Q0 y8 e

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I am glad that I am not a journalist. Sometimes I have to take pictures of insider news that I hate, or the actions of politicians that I cannot agree with. I will take a photo. , I want to affirm the value I believe in, and I want to keep this value in the image forever. No matter how the times change, how the political situation turns, how the social atmosphere declines, how the right and wrong are confused, and how human nature materializes, I want to use my camera to prove: The beautiful brilliance of humanity has been seen with my own eyes and captured powerfully. I hope that I can condense the momentary spark of hope into an eternal light of hope. I hope that everyone can cheer each other up in the darkest corners. Here, we can still look forward to the flame of hope. In this way, we will be able to maintain the fire and pass it on. I hope that I will always find ways to show warmth and not tell others coldly: "Don't deceive yourself! This In this era, this kind of world, this kind of society, what kind of hope is there? 9 {0 p! i( y( v9 P# mamp; u

. ; b; ?5 Bamp; Y Over the past year, I have indeed received a lot of inspiration: from the school children in the disaster area, I have seen the tenacity of vitality; from the dedication of countless Tzu Chi people in every corner, I have seen the power of human nature. Light.

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" V, {) v' @! C* ]3 K1 Q My first shot The school in the disaster area is Tucheng Elementary School in Dali City, Taichung County. At that time, almost all students in the disaster area had moved into prefabricated houses to attend classes. Only Tucheng Elementary School, which had too many students, was unable to build prefabricated houses as soon as possible, so it still used the open space of Guangzheng Elementary School to set up tents for classes. More than 3,700 teachers and students spent nearly three months blowing sand while attending classes.

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Looking from a distance, The long queues of tents in the three rows were really heartbreaking. However, all the children I met when I got close had adapted to this inconvenient temporary place. They greeted people with smiles and answered questions about the earthquake disaster in innocent childish words.

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. w }/ a" \; `$ U" a4 d7 jThis time, I will just be a photographer who specializes in creating statues of these little warriors. It doesn’t matter who I am behind the camera; every child in front of the camera must be a protagonist with a name and background. I want to look for these seeds of hope and get inspiration from them. I want to make a graduation album for them, the "Earthquake Generation" students. ) l/ _1 ?( y6 i： H l( e" L' R! A

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The earliest adopted by Tzu Chi Hope Project There were only more than 20 schools, but later they increased to 50. At first, my assignment at Daai TV was only for one month. The following cultural workers were Huang Chunming, Yu Kanping, Ke Yizheng, Lei Xiang, Ding Songyun, Wu Nianzhen, Chen Ruoxi and others. But I took the initiative to choose the itinerary that I have not visited and continued to take photos with other cultural workers. But so far, I still have not visited all the schools, so my work is still early to be completed. . I plan to take pictures until all these new schools are built and students graduate from the new schools. 1 p5 I9 E1 N' \ T2 w# X7 @

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It has been one year. The first phase of my work has been completed and edited into a book called "Seeds of Hope", which is scheduled to be published on September 21, the anniversary of the earthquake. In addition to some of my articles and photos being published in newspaper supplements, most of them are serialized in Tzu Chi’s internal publication Tzu Chi Monthly. This is a free magazine with a circulation of 300,000 copies. Fortunately, I was not aware of it before. Tzu Chi people shared my work, which made me feel that my life was rich. My photos were also printed on large and small fundraising posters and brochures introducing the "Hope Project"... Not only could I not say goodbye to my hometown, I was also raped. The February 1st earthquake brought me to the disaster area, and I spent a year with cute children and adults. 6 K3 Y/ l" ~7 O

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I watched the children move from tents to simple classrooms, watched them take exams, watched them play sports, watched them dance and sing, watched them play the huqin with adults in the cold night, and watched them listen to Huang Chunming’s stories. I learned printmaking from Lei Xiang, tied scout sticks with Chen Ruoxi, and cried to Father Ding... I also participated in their first graduation ceremony after the disaster; during the first summer vacation after the disaster, I socialized with the youth of Tzu Chi College. The students who will spend their summer camp time...! L3 e iamp; c1 x) v- y

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I also met. Many admirable principals and teachers of primary and secondary schools have witnessed the principles and attitudes of Tzu Chi people. Many teachers in schools in disaster areas were themselves affected by the earthquake and were completely cut off from the outside world within a few hours of the earthquake. At this time, they were frightened and weak, so they drank the hot porridge cooked by Tzu Chi volunteers. These teachers were deeply moved, and without exception, they all joined the Tzu Chi Merit Association and became Tzu Chi volunteers b" }/ V9 h x1 k z5 t4 e

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Teachers like this were taught by the schools that Tzu Chi helped build. Will your children not know how to be grateful? Tzu Chi’s donations come from people all over the country and from all over the world. How much love have these students received? During the summer vacation, many schools adopted by Tzu Chi began to break ground. The fastest progress will be completed during the winter vacation. Recently, Daai TV station arranged for me to go out on location every week to observe the progress of school construction during the month of the 1992 First Anniversary.

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I have the opportunity to know more Master Cheng Yen has great expectations for these schools. These fifty schools are designed by the best architects in the country, and the construction quality is a new level in Taiwan's construction projects. A two- or three-story school is built with an SRC steel frame structure that covers dozens of floors. Every place where the steel bars are tied with iron wires has a numbered diagram drawn in advance, and each car must be tied and inspected according to the diagram. There are strict requirements on the time limit for concrete from leaving the factory to grouting at the construction site. Tzu Chi itself has professionals on hand to supervise the work. If all construction projects in Taiwan are designed and constructed in this way, there will be no need to worry about any major earthquakes.

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In the past year, I have learned from Daai TV " The members of the production team of "Project Hope" also learned a lot. I appreciate their work ethic and the trusting relationships they build with their interview subjects. I have also worked on TV programs for five years and know the habits of ordinary TV workers. Under the dual pressure of program budget and ratings, everything is done to make the content sensational, and then it is broadcast quickly to create topics; the relationship with the interviewee is often mutual use, and the two have nothing to do with each other after the filming is completed and broadcast. These staff are very different. They always consider first whether it will disturb the children's normal class, whether it will embarrass the children, etc. From many small things, I can completely understand that they are doing the show with love. ( n6 N' a6 H8 e \: [3 K- W

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The day of the 102nd anniversary of Wufeng Elementary School Lin Jiali, a class eight student in Grade 1, was unable to come because her mother was late, and all the classmates and parents had already begun to enjoy the feast at the party. Executive producer Cai Yiyun immediately rushed out and bought a McDonald's children's meal and brought it back to her family. Li. His family was completely destroyed, and the family of three lived in a container house with friends. But in the end, his mother not only came, but also brought her freshly baked pizza.

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# r7 K. Z1 Q9 F y7 @3 f2 dTao Kailun, a vegetarian photographer, is devoted to his work and often He was the last one to call it a day. He loved his children and also showed his love to his subjects. One night, he cooked a feast of meat and vegetables at the home of Lai Lijuan, a classmate in Class A of Shuangwen Junior High School. Eat with younger brother Lai Laiyou. The two elder brothers' father died young and their mother remarried. The two elderly people spend three or four days a week in the mountain workhouse taking care of the ginger and plums they grow. The two brothers took care of the house and cooked the meals themselves, and urged each other to do their homework. After understanding this situation, the colleagues at Daai TV did the shopping and washed the rice, and then Karen, who was recognized as the best at cooking, became the chef. The roasted meat dishes are really delicious. 9 R- Q) \6 @. @4 camp; b/ C

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Producer Wang Wang Li pays special attention to students with special conditions. He Mingzong, who is in Class 1 of Ruicheng Elementary School, has learning difficulties, but he is very dexterous in performing stunts. Wang Li once told me in surprise: "I didn't expect that He Mingzong was still able to perform tricks." He is recognized as the king of dodgeball and is very majestic on the court. "What touches me is that Wang Li is really proud of Mingzong. 1 W, V( @5 i- U. t

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Chinese and Lao Junior High School Graduates You Zheng One, he was a maverick at school. Wang Li tried to interview him repeatedly but failed. Later, she told me that You Zhengyi was very different at home. He was filial, sensible and responsible. It's hard to imagine that he is just a junior high school student.

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Over the past year, our topic has been What happened to that school’s principal, that teacher, that classmate? As a photographer, everything I saw and was moved by at the scene has been exposed into photos one by one. The moment the photographer is moved is the same moment of creation. The in and out of an emotion, the receiving and giving of a touch, all must be synchronized. Photographers cannot rely on memory to click the shutter button. He captures the true feelings and is captured by the true feelings at the same time. This is true sharing. In a way, he should be more grateful. Thank you for everything I saw and photographed. 6 a g8 P `" f" Z3 p A0 [3 Y

b$ M( s! |, Z5 damp; @Maybe after my photography results this year are published, someone will criticize me again : "Why does Nguyen Nguy Trung just take pictures of happy children's faces without digging into the reality? There is so much injustice and suffering in the world, why does Nguyen Nüy Trung avoid seeing it!" (b, p?# g* i5 Z H7 ]4 U

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If people want to be exposed to these so-called realities, they must open the newspaper and turn on the TV every day. All kinds of ugly things, all kinds of corrupt human nature, nothing will be missed. After the catastrophe, I don't want to go to the disaster area to dig out any misfortunes, and I want to share my findings with everyone.