『眼見為憑』這種話，其實並不怎麼誠實。

“Seeing might not be believing”. 

1980-1990，一個青年攝影家的環遊台灣記憶。

三十年後的歸來，我們重翻照相簿子。

1986年，陳輝龍從四百卷黑白底片，上萬張膠卷中挑選岀來的六十幀作品，舉辦了人生第一次攝影展，「照相簿子」，1992年出版同名攝影集：偽家人的家族照、荒涼的海灘、溪谷、少年、蒼苦的老者，礦工、廟宇、野臺戲、小火車站、夏日午後的公園、充滿魔幻氣味又懷舊的影像，令人驚艷，就此成為藏家傳說。三十年後，走來了從1980年回來的少年，重新編輯了影像，選入73幀作品，延展了上世紀八0到九0年代的記憶，加入回視人生的敘事，轉動停格的時間，重現時代消失的風景和少年的自己，奏起了影像與文字的交響詩，是為《重翻照相簿子》。

Whether of an elderly woman sitting in front of her newspaper/bus ticket stand, an indigenous elder napping by the bus window, or a huddle of men chatting at the cattle market, photos and essays from Hui-Long Chen’s “Our Corners” captures a familiar—even intimate—quality in his subjects during 1980’s Taiwan. Rendering them in black-and-white, he imbues them with a timeless quality, conveying reverence for vanishing rural heritage amidst a rapidly changing country. 

Just like his novels, Chen’s photography work is not pure realism- using grainy, dark, edgy photographs, his work holds nothing back. The photographs convey a mixture of eerie, abstract, romantic, and nostalgic nature.

This collection of photographs and essays is thought-provoking, blurring the lines between ambiguity and contradictions. Looking back at this culmination of ten years of photography around Taiwan offers us a nuanced view of the people and places that he explored.