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) I am a photographer. I have a firm belief in the art of photography. Photography is a expressive medium that speaks by objects. Without objects, there can be no works. Therefore, I think: no matter how great a photographer is, at best, only 5% of the creators. Because the other 5% is given by the object. Respecting the object is the most basic ethics of photography. Beyond this limit, it is wrong to use or vilify objects with cameras. Therefore, I hope that when the people I photographed see the photos, they won't say, "Why was someone so unlucky to be photographed by Ruan?"! / x |; C) c $ q $. g

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Why do people rush towards a dead end? Is it the closed mind of the people of the island country? Is it self-expansion after economic development? Is it the hypnosis of politicians' dream of building a country independently? Is it that Taiwan Province people have no self-confidence in their hearts, and use arrogance to cover up their inferiority complex? What makes us regard electronic floats as the grassroots culture in Taiwan Province? What makes us cheer for the ugly puppet show? What makes us make a statue of betel nut beauty, treat rapists as heroes, hold showmen as the mainstream, interpret evil as good, treat ugliness as beauty, and rationalize tasteless as "alternative"? $ L) h v# U8 m- ^

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I remember that I just learned to take pictures. At the beginning of my trip to Taiwan Province, the people I saw from the camera were so kind and contented. The rural scenery taken from the viewing window frame is so quiet and harmonious. What a wonderful time it was in Taiwan Province! # A2 p2 A1 F6 m6 N, C! Z6 ]

" b7 Y- }. H& At that time, everyone worked hard and was full of hope for the future. Cultural workers take the pursuit of ideals as their volunteers and conscience as their direction. But now? As soon as I pick up the camera, I always see a look full of resentment and a look of being occupied by material desires. The villages and towns visited before have already developed into chaotic labyrinths of signboards and markets with overlapping bedsteads without planning. / }* G; J4 g4 w! U l% [% q b3 p ]3 f

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Just as everyone was preparing for the new millennium, I also made a decision: to bid farewell to the native land that I once embraced deeply with my creation. 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* P R4 p% G U] I have visited all the towns and villages in Nantou and Taichung counties, where the earthquake disaster was the most serious, and some of them have written reports and taken many photos. Puli, Guojing, Jiji, Zhushan, Shuili, Wujie, Caotun, Wufeng, Dongshi, Guguan ... These places were so tolerant to me when I was young and loved to taste lonely travel! My growing experience and these places cannot be separated. I donated all the proceeds from the sale of the works of the four exhibitions to the China Children and Family Support Foundation as support funds for the orphans in the earthquake disaster. Then, I arranged a few days' trip and asked a student of the victims whose house was completely destroyed to take me around the disaster area to see what was left in the dreamland in my memory. * L2 c5 J, M; a- D t% |& H

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I remember that day, the car stopped at the red light at the intersection of Guoguang Road and Daming Road in Taichung City, and the students pointed across the street and said, "We will enter the disaster area from now on! At this moment, I realized that the disaster area was many times larger than I thought. : G9 h& d e y1 _; @

" V/ ]! Q* [5 y; L4 @ Guided by the ruins all the way, I went to the Linjia Garden in Wufeng, which had just been trimmed and not yet accepted, but had been razed to the ground, and then Caotun, Nantou and Puli. When I came to the epicenter step by step-the top of Jiufen Lake in Nangang Village, the country's surname township, I was speechless and my heart was bleeding. P. g* r, E( y. _, z! ?

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Back in Taipei, I feel like a disaster victim. Although, this earthquake, I and all my relatives and friends were not injured by flesh and blood, or suffered too much economic loss. Those pictures of families falling apart and everything being destroyed made me lose sight of the hope. When a person feels hopeless, he simply doesn't know what to do next. 2 {' B: i4 e2 _; a$ R! M 'l

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Just then, I got a phone call from my friend Li Shouquan, a musician whom I haven't seen for years. I thought he went to see my exhibition to pay his respects, because there was a portrait of him in "A Famous Person Anonymous". I didn't expect him to ask me a favor.

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He said that he had just taken the post of consultant for Daai TV Station, and was planning a three-minute short film to be broadcast before the hourly news every day. I hope I can visit the primary and secondary schools that Tzu Chi adopted for post-disaster reconstruction through the eyes of different cultural workers and observe the students' spiritual reconstruction before the new school is built. \/ @% s: k8 ~, u9 q4 \

4 g+ }, z( K& U9 e, @%] At that time, I didn't say yes, only agreed to talk with Mr. Yao Renlu, director of Daai TV Station, and Miss Li Wang, the producer. Four people were in the huge conference room that day, and I told Mr Yao frankly, "I think Taiwan Province will only get worse and worse, and it can't get better … I don't see any hope …". 」 s. v' j' k; c% K q4 q8 t$ x

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Unexpectedly, the pious Tzu Chi man replied earnestly, "Not only Taiwan Province, but all corners of the globe are in a state of collapse. If there's anything that can slow down the collapse, it's worth doing. 」 9 ]5 T' x/ E1 f: h; W

* D" J; Q+ Y1 C+ J9 N was deeply moved by this sentence, and I felt that I had no right to be pessimistic. I had to promise: "Well, I'll try to find hope, even 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's your biggest feeling this year? "I will answer like this:" Thanksgiving. 9 h.4s (| 1 {2JBW8K+M < P > 1]/P, V-J # Q1F3 G3 V < P > "What are you thankful for? 」 4 C6 _3 F; Q: e+ D) _

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The word "gratitude" has never appeared in my mouth or pen before. When I first heard from Tzu Chi's population that I thanked him, but he replied "grateful", I was very surprised. "Thank you" has become a common greeting by everyone's habit, but "gratitude" is a heavy word that can't be repaid. At first, I just attributed it to Tzu Chi's mantra, so I didn't have to take it so seriously. But after a year, I often say these two words inadvertently and unconsciously in my pen. . {- u. H( W y6 c z

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) I feel that I have changed, although so far, I am still deeply afraid of what I believe in. Because it means that one's spirit and soul are trapped by a fixed frame. I believe in the existence of God, but I am afraid to convert to any religion. I try to put my religious sentiment into my persistence and practice of ideals. +y/['c1n4u% g "\ $ g

1f6fg6 [* w7 {"b * f I'm a photographer. I have a firm belief in the art of photography. Photography is a expressive medium that speaks by objects. Without objects, there can be no works. Therefore, I think: no matter how great a photographer is, at best, only 5% of the creators. Because the other 5% is given by the object. Respecting the object is the most basic ethics of photography. Beyond this limit, it is wrong to use or vilify objects with cameras. Therefore, I hope that when the people I photographed see the photos, they won't say, "Why was someone so unlucky to be photographed by Ruan?"! Make me so ugly and cringe. If the person I photographed would say, "Ruan someone photographed me with great spirit!" I will feel that all my hard work has not been in vain and I have won the greatest praise. 9 h6 E7 [2 Q y8 e

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I'm glad that I'm not a journalist, and sometimes I have to shoot inside news that I hate, or politicians' actions that I can't agree with. I will take a photo because I want to affirm the value I believe and make this value exist in the image forever. No matter how the times change, how the political situation turns, how the social atmosphere sinks, how right and wrong are confused, and how human nature materializes, I will use my camera to prove that the beautiful brilliance of human nature was once seen by my own eyes and captured by me forcefully. I hope I can turn the spark of hope into the eternal light of hope. I hope everyone can cheer each other up. In the darkest corner, we can still look forward to the flame of hope. In this way, we have the ability to protect the fire and pass on the firewood. I expect myself to always try to be warm, instead of telling others coldly, "Don't deceive yourself! In this era, this world, this society, there is no flame of hope! 」 9 { p! i( y( v9 P# m& u

. J9 ? 7 d! f; K& b; ? 5 B& Y Over the past year, I have indeed been inspired by many things: I have seen the tenacity of vitality from the schoolchildren in the disaster areas. From the dedication of countless Tzu Chi volunteers in every corner, I see the light of human nature.

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" V, {) v' @! C* ]3 K1 Q The first school I photographed in the disaster area was Tucheng Elementary School in Dali City, Taichung County. At that time, almost all the students in the disaster area had moved into the combined house for classes. Only Tucheng Elementary School, with too many students, still took advantage of the open space in Zhengzhong Middle School to set up tents for classes because the combined house could not be built first. More than 3,7 teachers and students spent nearly three months in class while blowing sand.

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From a distance, those three rows of tents are really sad. However, all the children who approached have adapted to this inconvenient temporary place. The children greeted people with smiles and answered questions about the earthquake disaster with innocent children's words. Everyone was not knocked down, but became stronger after passing a ruthless test. Those faces are really shocking! When filming a particularly confident female student, Chen Xiangcen, in Class 14, Grade 4, I made a decision in my heart. 8 P$ f5 d6 L4 p

. w }/ a" \; ` $ U" a4 d7 j This time, I want to be a photographer who specializes in figuring these little warriors. I am not important behind the camera; Every child in front of the camera must be a famous master with a surname and background. I want to look for these seeds of hope and get inspiration from them. I'm going to take a photo of the "earthquake generation" student graduation album for them. ) l/ _1 ? ( y6 i: H l( e" L' R! A

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At first, there were only more than 2 schools adopted by Tzu Chi Hope Project, but later it was added to 5 schools all the way. At first, my task in Daai TV Station was only one month. The following cultural workers were Huang Chunming, Yue Ham Ping, I-Chen Ko, Lei Xiang, Ding Songjun, Wu Nianzhen, Chen Ruoxi and others. But I took the initiative to choose a trip that I had never visited and continued to take photos with other cultural workers. But so far, I still haven't visited all the schools, so my work is still far from being finished. I'm going to shoot all these new schools until some students graduate from them. 1 p5 I9 E1 N' \+ T2 w# X7 @

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for a year. The first stage of my work has come to an end, and I have edited it into a book "Looking for the Seeds of Hope", which is scheduled to be published on the anniversary of the earthquake on September 21st. Most of the articles and photos in this book are serialized in Tzu Chi Monthly, Tzu Chi's internal publication, except for some published in newspaper supplements. This is a free magazine with a circulation of 3, copies. I was lucky enough to share my work with Tzu Chi volunteers who didn't know me before, which made me feel that my life was very rich. My photo was also printed as a poster to raise money and a pamphlet to introduce Project Hope. Not only could I not say goodbye to my native land, but I was also dragged into the disaster area by the September 21 earthquake and spent a year with lovely children and adults. 6 K3 Y/ l" ~7 O

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I watched children move from tents to simple classrooms, watch them take exams, watch them play sports games, watch them dance and sing, and watch them play the Hu Qin with adults in cold nights. Watch them listen to Huang Chunming's stories, learn from Lei Xiang's printmaking, tie a scout club with Chen Ruoxi, and pour out their tears to Father Ding. I also attended their first graduation ceremony after the disaster; During the first summer vacation after the disaster, I spent summer camp time with students of Tzu Chi Junior College Youth Association. ! L3 e i& C1 x) v- y

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