Born in Pingtung, Taiwan in 1965, Wu graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2000. He is currently teaching at the Department of Visual Communication Design, Ling-Tung University in Taichung, Taiwan. He worked as a photojournalist and photographer at Business Weekly, Taiwan Daily News, Brother Monthly and the Formosa Plastics Group. He has won many awards including the 2014 Observer’s Award and Excellent Work Award in New Media of Kaohsiung Awards, the

Grand Prize of the 2012 Creative Award of Visual Art, the Grand Award of the 2011 China Lishui International Photography Cultural Festival, the Grand Prize of the 2010  Power of Self (Artists Wanted, New York) and the Honorable Mention Award of the 2009 Taipei Arts Awards, etc. He has been invited to exhibit his works at the 2018 London Design Biennale, University Art Museum at Tokyo University of the Arts, Gwangju Museum of Art in Korea, 2012 Singapore International Photography Festival, 2012 Hong Kong International Art Fair, 2011 FOTOSEPTIEMBRE USA-SAFOTO International Photography Festival, 2011 China Lishui International Photography

Cultural Festival, 2010 2nd Dali International Photography Exhibition, 2010 3rd Novosibirsk International Festival of Contemporary Photography and 2010 Taiwan Biennial, etc. His works have been collected by the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, the National Center of Photography and Images, the Art Bank Taiwan, the Cultural Affairs Bureau, Pingtung, and the Cultural Affairs Bureau, Taichung.

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Born in Tainan, Ko went to studied at the Tokyo Photography Institute, Japan in 1959. He first worked at an advertising agency upon his return, and later founded the first professional photography company, Art Garden Culture, in Taiwan in 1964. In 1967, Ko went to the U.S., later opening a photography company in New York City in 1971, and becoming a contract photographer of a number of fashion magazines. In 1979, he closed his company, and embark on a journey to India, Southern Europe, and Northern Africa, to photograph local natural and cultural landscapes. Through precise photographic techniques, Ko created works of rich layers of light and shadow, brightness and darkness, and textures. Ko also enhanced the expressions of colors through the technique of dye transfer, extracting daily sceneries from images of mindscape that were almost abstract and metaphysical. Ko was praised as the “First Man in Taiwan Modern Photography.” His most representative works include “Wait for Venus” (1979), “Tree & Wall” (1979), and “Golden Sea” (1988), and he won the Wu San-Lien Award in 2000 and National Award for Arts in 2006.

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Shen Bo-Cheng. Photographers of Taiwan: Ko Si-Chi, Taipei: National Taiwan Museum, 2017.
Boundaries of Poetry – Ko Si-Chi, Taichung: National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, 2020.

Born in Taipei, Taiwan, Hung graduated with a master's degree from the Graduate Institute of New Media Art, National Taiwan University of the Arts. His creative themes focus on the context of new media and the representations of the virtual and reality in topography images. With the experience of his own residential area and long-term observation of various market scenes in Wanhua District, Taipei City, Hung explores his gaze at social cognition and communal flows in civilian spaces, and creates aerial photography, video art, 3D scanning, and VR productions. These creative experiences enables his investigation of virtual reality to take in the sense of place in different dimensions of the local social network.

His exhibition experience includes: solo exhibition On Fluid Street at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, and Xiao Long Cultural Park Believers in town at Soulangh Cultural Park; participated in 2020 Nuit Blanche Taipei, Perforated City, The 6th Mediations Biennale, Montaże - Biblioteka, Poland, etc.; won the Next Art Tainan Award, Merit award of the 2019 Kaohsiung Awards-Technology Media Art, Gold Medal Award for New Media Art at the 2018 National Art Exhibition, etc.; works are collected in the Art Bank, and the Yo-Chang Art Museum.

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Born in 1965 in Taipei, Taiwan, Yuan graduated from the National Institute of the Arts (now Taipei National University of the Arts) in 1989 with an undergraduate degree in Art and then studied in Germany from 1993 to 1997, where he received a master’s degree in Media Art from the Academy of Design in Karlsruhe. He is now a professor at the Department of New Media Art in the Taipei National University of Arts. As one of the most active and internationally acclaimed Taiwanese media artists, Yuan began making video art in 1984 and is also considered a video art vanguard in Taiwan. Combining symbolic metaphors with imaging technologies, Yuan often uses his work to create digital visual illusions conveying various intricate psychological and mental perceptions and conditions that people go through in today’s visual society. The refined visual style he has developed is often poetic and philosophical. Yuan is a frequent contributor to major international exhibitions, including the Aichi Triennale (2019), the 1st Bangkok Art Biennale (2018), Biennale de Lyon (2015), Fukuoka Triennale (2014), Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art in Australia (2012), Singapore Biennale (2008), Liverpool Biennial (2004), Auckland Triennial in New Zealand (2004), the 50th Venice Biennale—Taiwan Pavilion (2003), Seoul International Media Art Biennale (2002), and the exhibition, 01.01: Art in Technological Times, presented at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2001), ICC Biennial, Japan (1997), and Taipei Biennial (2002, 1998, and 1996).

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Born in Taichung and currently living in Taipei, Taiwan, Ma is the founder of “1 Image Art” and a university lecturer, and dedicated to the promotion of the art of photography. In his early career, Ma worked in the news media, and has long been paying close attention to politics, society, urban changes and other related issues. Since 2013, his video works have been transformed from documentaries to artistic creations, such as his simulacra series Landscape Shaped. By 2015, his works extended from image to video, and created Transit, Landscape, Landscape March and other series. He explores the transformation of cities and landscapes from the concept of time, and currently creates in the forms of photography and video. His works have been exhibited in Taiwan, Japan, Paris, France, Macau, China, Italy and other places.

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Born in Taipei, Taiwan, Chang has lived in Eastern Europe since 2003 and studied for a master degree in photography at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU). He is currently based in Slovenia. Chang has been working on in-depth humanistic stories as his major photography exploration, and through images, he lets voices that have been ignored by society have the opportunity to be heard. Having dived into refugee camps, mental hospitals and tribes in Europe, and taking snapshots of the real lives in the local areas, Chang believes that the only way to enter a narrative is to faithfully make records of every photo and figure. Evaporation and They are the early representative works of the his sojourn in Eastern Europe as they won the special prize and the second prize of the 2005 and 2006 the Frame Competition, respectively. They also won the first prize of the 2013 Eyetime Photo Competition, New York, USA. MIDVA won the first prize the 2011 Slovenia Press Photo Awards in the best story category (people); Ashura won the first prize of the 2012 Eyetime International Photography Competition, New York, USA. Since 2010, he has been based in Slovenia in the north of the Balkan Peninsula.

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Pai Yu-Chun, Metadata of the Collection of the National Center of Photography and Images, 2022.

Graduated from the Graduate Institute of Arts and Technology (now Graduate Institute of New Media Arts), National Taipei University of the Arts, Taiwan, Chang pays close attention to the aesthetics of contemporary images and body perception, and excels at new media, mechanical installations, space installations and other creative forms. He also creates for theatre stages and media design. His works won the first prize of the Taipei Art Awards in 2009, the first prize for Video Art in Taipei Digital Art Awards in 2010, the committee prize for Art Awards of Japan Media Arts Festival in 2011, and the silver prize for New Media Art of the National Art Exhibitions in 2012. In recent years, Chang has been invited to exhibit in China, South Korea, Hong Kong and other places.

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Born in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, and graduated from New York University in 1988, Chang integrated the techniques of Splash Ink in Chinese landscape paintings and darkroom skills to create his Museum Series. Since photographs would gradually darkens without the procedure of fixing, this is a work that challenges the temporality of photography. In 1994, Chang wrote the Darkroom Terminator, the first Photoshop digital art book in Taiwan, and created Botany series to foretell the end of the darkroom. In 2004, he created 3D virtual images Digital Human Aesthetics, illustrating a kind of reality without source or truth, that is, a kind of the hyperreal. In 2010, he improved the resolution of image scanning and added traces of human beings in Botany 2.0, such as fingerprints, scratches, dirt, dust, and tried to restore the simplicity of photography with a painterly technique with a kind of human aura.

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Born in Dacheng, Changhua, Hsu is currently a freelance photographer living and creating along the banks of the Zhuoshui River. The majority of his photographic works are related to rivers, oceans, and the environment. Integrating contemporary thinking on the modern society and the environment into his images, Hsu explores the interrelation among people, rivers and the society. He published the photobook South Wind and participated as photographer in publishing projects on the Zhuoshui River, Taiwan geology, and industrial environment. His works have also been exhibited at various environmental photography exhibitions and special exhibitions.

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Huang received his BFA from Department of Sculpture at National Taiwan University of Arts, 2003, and MFA from the Graduate Institute of Plastic Arts at Tainan National University of the Arts, 2006. During his stay in Tainan, his work shifted towards image making. Huang conveys his view on temporality and spatiality with contemporary digital photography. In 2017, he received his Ph.D. from the Department of Art Creation and Theory, Tainan National University of the Arts, continuing his investigation on the identity of human existence in an image driven age. In regard to contemporaneity, Huang commented: “We are drifting in a paradoxical world. We find pleasure in it, but we lost our ability to discern.” He has extensively observed the liminoid phenomena through signage, word play, and representation in the media era; with experiences existing in a digital age and shifting perspectives, Huang relates to the world’s wisdom in the most intimate and direct way, and tells a disorderly yet delightful parable of human nature.

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Metadata of the Collection of the National Center of Photography and Images, 2021.