Shadow Box Notes: Images and Thoughts. Everyday Life Behind the Globalization Era

Author: Yu Jian
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Publish Date: 2006-04-01
Features: (Photos) Create an illusion of life, life is not just a moment, life is history and the scene, it is the continuous things and states in space, it is the countless things on the street cut off by the camera lens of "Camera," and the life that these people cannot see one second before or after in the picture. Writing is a personal matter, but photography must intervene in the world. No matter how the camera changes, it cannot change its nature as a tool—weapon; it is minimal violence. Photography is a painful thing, I always feel I am harming and disturbing the world. Especially in Asia south of Yunnan, in those societies that believe in Buddha, I can never forget the fleeting panic in people's expressions when I press the shutter, their worry about some unknown fate. The free world is destroyed. Often, my actions are like those of a thief or an invader. This is of course explainable within the moral system of modernism. But that is a world that completely does not know what explanation is, a world that fundamentally does not need explanation. If images are the celebration of harm, then my words can be considered a confession. —Yu Jian
The subtitle of this book is "Everyday Life Behind the Globalization Era," and this was not a pre-designed theme. Because in the past few years, I have had the opportunity to travel in some places around the world, mainly in the Lancang-Mekong River Basin, and I have been plagued by a sense of crisis. "the last last" has always been my strongest feeling. What is frightening is that "the last last" is not a bad world, on the contrary, they are generally the most beautiful world in human history, they just do not conform to the world map designed unilaterally by the "invisible hand."