The First Photograph 第一張照片
2024
Single-channel digital video (colour, sound)
10′55″
"The First Photograph" depicts the story of a man who fled to Hong Kong in the 70s. The video are presented in a series of overlays and montages, initially taken from one of documentary photographs, and then combined with Google Maps to retrace the route of his escape from China, as well as newspaper news and radio broadcasts from 1978 to 1980.The artist also used the old negatives found at home,including those are overexposed, torn, faded, with light leaks, etc., It is an attempt to find and restore the unrecorded family story in his father's fading memories, and to reflect on the larger historical narrative through the individual's life experience.
〈第一張照片〉描繪了一個七十年代時逃難到香港的故事。錄像以大量疊化和蒙太奇的方式呈現，最初取材自父親的一張證件照，再結合通過谷歌地圖重回當年逃港的路線、1978至1980年報章新聞及廣播資料、家中的舊底片，包括過曝、破損、褪色、漏光的壞底片等。試圖在淡去的記憶中，尋覓並還原這段沒有影像記錄的家族故事，透過個體的生命經驗，反觀大型歷史敘事下的距離和時間感。