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时晓凡 | 在哈瓦那完成的「摄影」

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时晓凡 | 在哈瓦那完成的「摄影」

Quentin Shih | La Habana In Waiting

2019.07.13 – 2019.08.28

开幕Opening：2019.07.13 / 3:30PM

摄影到底可以做什么？特别是在陌生的古巴哈瓦那。

2012年，我陆续拍摄了一些身在哈瓦那的年轻人，我把他们置身于夜晚的街道上或者彩色背景的摄影棚中，彼此猜忌着我们到底正在做什么：他们在我镜头前表演么？我在导演他们以达到我预想的画面么？

相机具有偷窥与纪录的功能，也可以达到绘画的功能，我无意评判哪一种更接近摄影的本质。也许这一系列照片只是我脑海中臆想的古巴，虚构的哈瓦那。即使和“真实”毫无关系，我也利用我的相机抵达或者验证了预想的“真实”。也许这是摄影真正的快感。

我把这个系列命名为“在哈瓦那完成的摄影”（La Habana In Waiting），它仅仅关于一种结果，我和每个拍摄对象都在等待的一个结果，一个通过相机被称之为“摄影”的结果。

时晓凡

Rey Mascullo & Yasmany Ramirez & Javier Lopez

Epson灯箱片艺术微喷/欧司朗LED灯/实木框架表面喷漆/总功率32瓦

Duratrans Print on Epson Transparency Film / OSRAM LED Lights / Wood Frame
160x100cm , 1/3 Edition , 2012

What can photography really achieve?

In the year 2012, I photographed some young people in Havana, placing them in the streets at night or in studios with colored backdrops. We were both inquisitive of the other, wondering what exactly we were doing together. Were they acting in front of my camera? Or was I directing them to achieve the image that I wanted? A camera can serve a documentary purpose but it can also embellish and create. It is not my place to judge which is its most fundamental purpose. Perhaps ultimately, all the images in this series can only represent what Cuba is like in my mind. Yet even if it is completely disconnected from ‘reality’, I used my camera to achieve, or to testify to the ‘reality’ I envisioned. Maybe this is where my real enjoyment as a photographer lies.

I called this series La Habana in Waiting. It was about a kind of result - a result that all my subjects and I were waiting for - a result which is achieved through a camera lens and is called ‘photography’.

Quentin Shih