Those Illuminated 采采眾光
Photography Installation and Interview recording.
Year 2016
The Chinese title of this series (采采眾光) comes from the
decomposition of the word color (彩). In traditional Chinese seal
script, the word color (彩) is composed with 采 , meaning “to
collect” and 彡 meaning “light (光) and shadows”. Hence, the
collection of Those Illuminated.
They came to this island with their family backgrounds. Their
decisions changed certain corners of the island, also rewrote the
story of that island. This series focuses on eight people who
came from foreign countries to settle and marry in taiwan. By
exposing them to light painting photography, photographer
RoHsuan Chen sets out to collect the cultural color of their
personal objects revealing through the process the inherent
cultural variations underlying their cross-culture integration.
Click for Interview Recording
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ukbxfa5pbrjw2sq/2016＿采采眾光
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RoHsuan Chen // Photographer
The more life answered, the more questions heaved and tossed. Most of my works are about collecting and documenting fragments through a foreign eye, consciously selecting the anomalies from the routine and framing those instants into a personal fiction and yet a public true story. When moments are made monumental, subjects as well as viewers see the flickering verses echoing in their personal fictions.
www.RHChen.com
Awards 2019 TIFA Tokyo International Foto Award Professional - Sliver Winners - Category Advertising-Food / Category Events-Other
2018 " Reduction－Nature is Speaking" Group Exhibitipn, MOCA Taipei, Taiwan
2016 Group Exhibition “ Color and culture” , exhibiting “Those illuminated Photography Project”, National Taiwan Museum, Taipei and National Museum of Prehistory, Taitung, Taiwan.
2016 “Those illuminated” - International Photography Award - Honorable Mention in Professional - People: Culture, People: Portrait and Moving Imagery, USA
2016 "Tminun Pdsun" - Prix de la Photographie, Paris (P×3) - Honorable Mention in Professional - Book, Paris, France
2016 “A World Within the World” TIFA Tokyo International Foto Award Professional - First Place Winner in Moving images & GOLD WINNER Moving images - Collage, Tokyo, JP
2015 “Those who move the stars” , 3rd place of Open Theme Video, awarded by Nikon Photo Contest, Japan
2015 Group Exhibition “Music Without Border”, Taiwan Academy in Los Angeles, USA
2015 Group Exhibition “Chantons Aux Vaches” , Rue Francaise Gallery, Paris, France.
2014 Group Exhibition "With my [ ] trade with your [ ]", Taipei Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan
2012 "Tminun Pdsun", Photography Book Launch Exhibition, Garden City Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2012 "Together & Forever" Group Exhibition, Huashan 1914, Taipei, Taiwan
2012 “A true story" Imagery Poem, nominated, Taipei Poetry Festival, Taiwan
