Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/02/17
By Shih Hsiu-chuan, CNA staff reporter 

Astounding landscapes are the only images he uses to capture with his camera, but in

Ke Chin-yuan (Photo courtesy of Ke Chin-yuan)

search of the sublime in nature, he sees more coastal areas polluted by industrial waste and bizarrely colored rivers dyed by polluting discharge, compelling him to turn his lens to documentary photography.

For nearly four decades, Ke Chin-yuan (柯金源), the 56-year-old documentary filmmaker, has been documenting how the process of industrialization has affected the environment, which in turn influences human activity, and now he wishes to pass down his experiences to the younger generation.

“The only thing I have been doing over the past 40 years or so is recording environmental changes associated with human action. And the only thing I am good at is interpreting the changes and communicating with the public,” Ke said at the recent launch event of his book, “Taiwan, Our Island.”    [FULL  STORY]