Shao-Feng Hsu (Taiwán, 1989)
Shao-Feng Hsu es un fotógrafo taiwanés que examina la interacción humana con el medio acuático. Shao, se ha entrenado como nadador profesional en Australia, Camboya y Japón, y ha hecho de esta práctica deportiva un camino de exploración para estudiar el impacto de la era antropocena en las aguas del planeta. En diciembre de 2017, participó en el Angkor Photo Festival Workshop, y recientemente trabajó con la ONG RE-Think, en un proyecto para ilustrar la contaminación de las costas.
INNER TIDAL ZONES
Esta serie se compone de fotografías y fotogramas de la vida silvestre en la zona inter-mareal, así como de imágenes de objetos de uso doméstico. Los fotogramas representan el punto de vista del agua misma, su emocionalidad, ya sea en aguas oceánicas, ribereñas o simplemente en el agua que corre por el grifo de la cocina. Todo circula en el mismo planeta. Todo está fundamentalmente interconectado.
Shao-Feng Hsu is a photographer whose work around the world mainly focuses on the interaction of humans and aquatic environment. From his native Taiwan — where he trained as a competitive swimmer — to Australia, Cambodia, Japan, and beyond, Shao-Feng Hsu has immersed himself in aquatic cultures in an ongoing study of the impact of the Anthropocene Era on our waters. In December 2017, he was selected to participate in Angkor Photo Festival Workshop, where he documented life in a village without proper sanitation and running water.
Expanding on the projectʼs themes back in Taiwan, he collaborated with the environmental NGO, RE-Think, on projects to illustrate shoreline pollution.
His current project, Inner Tidal Zones, combines color photograms and digital images to capture the perspective of aquatic creatures and the emotions of the water. He is currently graduated from Creative Practices program at the International Center of Photography in New York.
INNER TIDAL ZONES
Inner Tidal Zones examines the interaction of human beings with water and the impact of this relationship on aquatic environments.
The project includes two types of images: color photographs taken on shorelines from the perspective of wildlife in the intertidal zone, such as seagulls and crabs, which picture what they encounter; and images of domestic water usage, including kitchen sinks, swimming pools, and park fountains. These images are joined by photograms representing the point of view of the water itself, whether in oceans, rivers, or domestic locations, lending these waters an emotional inner life.