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Juror's Statement, Ph otograp h y Category Yu, Ju-Chi
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For the 18 Da Dun Fine Arts Exhibition of Taichung City s photography category, the jurors were Yu Ju-Chi, Hsu Yuan-Fu,
Chuang Ming-Ching, Huang Chia-Sen, and Wu Zhen-Yi. Out of 555 submitted works in this category, 59 made it through the first
review on May 19, 2013. A second review took place on June 18 after photographers enlarged and framed their works, and the top
three prizes, five awards of merit and 50 short-listed works were selected. The First Prize winner in each category also competed
for the Da Dun Prize with the original submission plus three additional photographs. The chief juror for each category reviewed
submissions on July 23, 2013 and a winner will be revealed at the awards ceremony on October 26, 2013.
The details below resulted from phone interviews regarding the top three prize winners concepts and creation processes:
First Prize winner Hsu Mei-Chu received the call when she was in New Taipei City s Jinshan district on a photo shoot. She
closed her apparel shop to follow a passion for photography and travel all over the world. Her winning photograph, Liberation or
Redemption , was taken in some dump site in Hsinchu and was finished with digital post-production. Her similar to black-and-white
submission also stood out, as most entries were in color. The description of her work was a poem written from a female perspective.
The Second Prize winner, Contemplation by Tsai Cheng-Yun, was taken at National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts and
represents computer-enhanced photorealism, with a Madagascar almond in the sculpture s foreground.
The Third Prize award went to Winter Wonder , shot in Inner Mongolia under extreme weather winter conditions of minus 30
degrees Celsius. Lin Hao-Jan digitally added goats to the photo and applied pencil-sketching effects.
Photography has advanced from black-and-white to color and digital photography has been popular for over a decade
now. Computer-enhancement technology should be used to improve works and not go overboard. Photography takes practice
and persistence. To advance in photography, you should consider taking photos with specific themes in mind, holding personal
exhibitions and publishing photo books.
At the invitation of the Taichung City Government s Cultural Bureau Affairs, I visited the Joan Miró: Women, Birds, Stars
exhibition at National Museum of History with several digital artists on Sept. 5, 2013, when Chang Dai-Chien s The Great Yangtzu
River and Yu Ju-Chi s The Heron Garden were also being exhibited. For decades, wherever Yu has gone, he has had his camera
with him. Yu has millions of still photographs and thousands hours of film. On his own, he sponsored and remodeled his 31-year-
old, approximately 1,650-square-meter building into a Taiwan Museum of Photography. He has also published Shi Ku Quan Shu ,
which covers Taiwan s modern history.
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