TOKYO LIFE 1980’s

I lived and studied in Tokyo, Japan for five years in the 1980s.  The culture of Japan left me with a deep feeling and had a profound impact on me.  This country that cultivates my artistic creation is like my second home.  I took a lot of snapshot during my stay; those photos were my exploration, cognition, feeling, and understanding of the place, which have become the imprint of my growing years.

In the first year of studying photography, the teacher asked us to shoot five hundred rolls of black and white film (135, 36 exposures) in one year.  Not only the school trained our processing and printing skills, but also the technique of capturing snapshot as a form of expression.  I didn’t understand it at first, but later I realized that only this method could train us to “see” the world and to “feel” people and things around us.  Although I did not choose to develop my photography career in this form, I understand that taking snapshots is my foundation.

1980年代我在東京讀書生活五年，日本的文化令我留下了深刻的感受，對我影響深遠。這個培養我藝術創作的國度就好像是我的第二個家。居住期間曾拍下大量 snap shot，是我對她的探索、認知、感受、了解的渠道，現已成為我成長年代的印記。

學習攝影的第一年，老師要求我們一年內拍攝五百卷36張裝的135菲林黑白底片。除了是訓練我們冲放技巧外，學校非常著重抓拍這個表現形式，當初不太明白，但後來明白只有這種方法才能訓練我們怎樣「看」這個世界，怎樣「感受」身邊的人和事。離開學校之後我雖然沒有選擇在這個形式上發展我的攝影事業，但我明白抓拍是我紥根的基礎。