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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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