Page 181 - 第22屆大墩美展專輯電子書

攝
影

類

Photography
名
第 Second Prize ─
二

最後一次採菸葉／ Picking the Tobacco Leaves for the Last Time 48×73cm

潘 同正 PAN Tung-Cheng

作品說明 Description
採收菸葉在臺灣已經是一項沒落消失的產業了。隨著 Tobacco harvesting is a dead industry in Taiwan. With growing health
awareness, the smoking population has reduced. From harvesting to drying,
國人健康意識抬頭，抽煙的人口減少，再加上菸葉從
tobacco industry relied solely on labors, and only the elderly people who
採收到烘乾，全程作業都必須靠人力，而現今也只剩
stayed in rural areas were still engaged in this line of work. Therefore, the local
留在家鄉的老人家在做，因此，總是敵不過外國進口 tobacco industry could not compete with import tobacco in terms of cost,
煙草的成本，終究還是沒落及消失了。 and inevitably vanished.

181