The Emotion, The Joy by Lin Meng Shan (October 30, 2009) 
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Introduction by Taiwan International Visual Arts Center
Taiwan International Visual Arts Center (TIVAC) is presenting a week of young Taiwanese photographers selected for their strong connections to Taiwanese culture and traditions. Established in 1995, TIVAC is a private-owned, professional and open forum for those interested in visual images in Taiwan and internationally. Against the background of a global diversifying trend in the visual arts, curating policies have extended into the art of computer-generated images, documentary photography , and visual design. The Center is currently closed for redecorating, it will reopen in March 2010 with an exhibition of Chinese photographer Chen Fu Lie.
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I’m not a musician nor a band player. I take pictures of people without a reporter's ID.
It all happens at the right time, in the right place with a camera in my pocket.
No difficult techniques are involved in my photo shots, they are no masterpieces either.
I subjectively and willfully saw these people glowing with the bloom of youth, genuinely and appealing.
My pictures would have subjectively and willfully preserved the emotion, the joy, the excitement and the anger of these moments; or it would have been my self-righteousness or autohypnosis; or maybe.. I was too eager to catch the last flight of youth.
Somehow, a decade had passed me by.. What I was hoping to do is to be the witness of my time, a song, one festival or a superstar. I do not exactly know what I have snapped; is it music, musician, a breath of youth or a mood of rage?
Lin Meng Shan (1966) lives and works in Taipei, Taiwan.
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