location and time 地點與時間

對於我來說，街頭攝影就是地點跟時間的記錄。

To me, street photography is the documentary of location and time.

但可能大家比較先注意到或好奇的是地點，因為那可能就是照片的軸心了。或許地方對了，照片就對了。這也說明，為什麼大家都很喜歡去旅行，因為地點的變換可以帶來不一樣的衝擊。以前有一位攝影同好告訴我，街頭攝影，一定要到香港或日本去拍，才能拍出味道。聽起來來好像蠻有道理，然而我不以為然。雖然香港那凌亂的後巷，跟日本文化讓我著迷，不過我覺得，在哪裡都可以拍出珍品。為了證實我的想法，我開始拍攝自己的家鄉，檳城。最後把兩三年所拍到的感動，集成攝影誌「Home Town」。我覺得它並不會輸給任何一個城市的街頭攝影。

At first, we probably curious about where does the picture take from, because that is the most important information that we can ask about. Maybe, as long as the location is right, the photograph will turn out great too. That is why we all love to travel, it may inspire us somehow. A few years back, a friend of mine told me this, street photography has to be shooting in the cities like Hong Kong and Tokyo. It may sound convincing but I don't think so. No doubt I love the back alley of the Hong Kong street and wonderful culture of Japan, but I truly believe that a great street photograph can be taken from any place. To prove myself right, I started to photograph my hometown, Penang Island. And finally, after a couple of years, I produced a photo-zine "Home Town". In my opinion, it looks as great as street photographs that taken from any other cities.

Survey Results about Photo-Zine

Upon designing my second personal photo-zine, I made a survey form. To learn about, whats are the community of photo-zine looking for. The survey form consists of 7 multiple choice questions. I emailed to the people I know, who loves photo-zine like me, I posted to the photo-zine/photo-book community Facebook page too. Until today, I got 22 responses.

By looking through the results in pie charts, It kinda gives me some insights of what the collectors and the publishers' thoughts. And I think the results may be beneficial to all of the photo-zine makers too, therefore I decided to create this post to share the results here, and gives some of my thoughts based on the results. Do leave comments for me if you have your thoughts to share with me.

二零一七年七月

這個月我想回歸一下黑白照片。雖然我最近開始迷戀彩照，而且拍得我自認有點彩色阿傑特這樣，企圖想保持檳城的色彩留給後世。不過，我 不 曾 停 止 拍 黑 白！

就讓我為你們展示，我這個月來所拍的黑白照片吧！其實拍得不多。

二零一七年六月

照片是一種記憶的補助品，老來回頭看時，照片會變得無比珍貴。老實說，雖然一直都在拍黑白的東西，拍到好看的會讓我有一種快感；然而對於記憶的補助品，我還是覺得彩照比較貼近心中的美好。還好一直以來我都有在收集彩照，現在回頭看，滿滿的感觸，很想弄一本彩色攝影集來收藏。我很喜歡拍建築、街角、門面，但那些畫面都比較公整，咋看之下就像是模型。對的，我就是把它們當模型收藏。比如說我到了日本旅遊，就拍了很多的民宅與店面。當我看見漂亮的門面，我就會忍不住想把那個畫面帶回家。我重溫這些照片時，我可以走進去，用幻想去重遊那個地方。有時候我還會太過於貪心，美的拍，醜的也拍，就是想把整條街的民宅都帶回家，但那是不可能的。會這樣大量的拍，其實可能是希望可以把它們集成書，印出來收藏。

霧集雲合 Orient & Occident ( 雙語雙誌 ／ dual language dual zines ）

四個攝影同好來自於荷蘭、馬來西亞、葡萄牙與台灣，我們都是攝影書迷和獨立出版人；彼此都抵擋不住分享照片的慾望，最終決定以攝影合集的方式來呈現與抒發。

把東方和西方思維所拍攝的影像湊合在一起，到底會碰撞出什麼火花呢？我們對此充滿了期待。我們集合了彼此的照片，湊成了兩本攝影誌。一本由東方代表設計；另一本由西方代表設計，但兩本都會呈現東方與西方的對照。

 Four picture hoarders from The Netherlands, Malaysia, Portugal and Taiwan, all book lovers and self-publishers, wanted to share their lust for pictures and the pleasure of the presentation in print. 

But above all we where curious how the mix from our photographs from the West and the East would look like in a book when brought all together. The multi-faceted photographed bits of our surroundings are presented in two photo-zine interpretations.