Andante-Liang Guolong Photography Collection

The book "Andante: Photography Collection of Liang Guolong" reproduces the light and shadow path of the photographer entering and leaving the Hakka Village. The book is double-sided. The left page reads "Days of Watching the Sea" and the right page reads "Landscapes with Hakkas Living". Both units were filmed between 2018-2021. In recent years, whenever he has free time and the weather is good, Liang Guolong often picks up a small black box containing films, puts on his camera, gets on his motorcycle, and goes out to places where Hakka people live. Packing lightly, he walked slowly along the familiar paths and mountain trails, capturing the moment that touched Liang Guolong. When the photographer's children were young, the family would travel together every year, using a Hakka village as a stopping point, transporting their original life to another village where the Hakka language was spoken but there were few tourists. They always stayed for a while. Feeling the local living atmosphere and breathing the air that belongs there, the children can have plenty of time to take a nap, and the camera becomes a travel record secondary to life. His quiet and keen observation of subtle changes in life, crowds, landscapes, phenology, and migrant workers are all hidden in the "Andante" series of works. The photographer who has been staying in Hakka Village for a long time thinks that he has completed the work he should do well. As for the appreciation of the works, image interpretation or stories, it should be completed by the readers, respecting the readers' feelings at the moment when watching the images, and evoking the hidden inner memories and stories. emotion. The new book is about to be officially launched. Readers are invited to read the images at their own speed, between scenes and objects, in the market, facing the sea level, waiting for spring plowing in the paddy fields, and the fishermen working in the cabin... Between the pictures, there are Meet the photographers who blend landscapes and people into one…. ︱Table of contents︱ I. Days of watching the sea 2018 ─ 2021 II. Scenery with Hakkas 2018 ─ 2021 ●Special article Photography by Liang Guolong ─ Banwen/Chen Ban Take pictures of dreams─Along Gu’s Hakka memories and testimonials/Zhong Yanwei The time crystal article under the change of things and the movement of stars/Zeng Shaoqian Another kind of Hakka narrative/Chen Jiaqi ●Creation chronology ︱Photographer resume︱ Liang Guolong A Hakka born in Yangmei in 1959, he has been using black and white images as his main medium since 1989, focusing on the "Andante" series of video documentaries. Now at a stage of abundant creative energy, he has been diligently visiting the fields in recent years. His works contain musicality, interweaving cantabile andante in black and white, and a narrative atmosphere of images that are sometimes fast and sometimes slow, allowing the viewer to have a dual visual and auditory experience. , with the exhibition process of moving forward and stopping to gaze, it creates multiple silent resonances between watching and being watched, and a new visual sonata in black and white images. ︱Basic information on books︱ Author: Liang Guolong ISBN: 978-986-99744-4-8 Specifications: Hardcover/192 pages/29.5 x 29.5 cm/Two-color printing/First edition Published and distributed by: Hakka Public Communication Foundation Design and production: Dayan Cultural Industry Co., Ltd. Publication date: August 2023