Just Random Images Here
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Just Random Images Here •
2012.08.27. 南方澳漁港 Yilan, Taiwan.
“ We don’t see things as they are,
we see them as we are. ”
— Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume 1 (1931–1934)
I’m not a fan of astonishing photos.
Since to me photography is more about the process of accumulating the fragments and the segments, and there’s no possibility for one being to live a life that’s always so vivid, vibrant and so colorful. Hence that’s exactly why I treat my cameras as my physical extension. I need to salvage the poor memories of mine, need to focus on those tiny bit of nuance that surrounds, whether they’re things, people or even those fading moments in daily mundane.
Over the years I found myself very much, in fond of black and white images. There’s lots of times that I treat some of my images, or so to speak, moments, are quite intensive and aggressive towards others. But yet there’s still things to feel, things to reflect, to recall, even if the visual impact is way too blinding. In consequence, black and white seems to me the best solution to try convey what I saw and probably, whom I am.
In the end, I’m a documentary photographer.
I was there to record and observe.
I am here to witness and for myself, to find the peace and hopefully to give the peace.
I will be somewhere, to document the nuances that caused our future, a bit different.
李 定衡 日珥 Ding Herng LEE, written at Magnum office, Paris, 2025.03.19.
