Upcoming Events . . . /眼前的活动:

　　The Photographic Works of Zeng Li, 5:00pm March 21, 2009

　　曾力:摄影作品展

　　. . . Documentary photography provides important insights into the real world and it is through the camera lens that we observe and can consider our historic circumstances. After a century of change, should we now take a fresh look at the history and landscape of today’s China?

　　I have always been fascinated and deeply moved by historic photography that relates to and reflects about its own particular era. The monumental work of August Sander, Bernd & Hilla Becher and Sebastian Salgado - as well as Marc Riboud’s on-going work about China; a significant and valuable part of China’s contemporary history.

　　For me, photography is a long-term job that will take dozens of years to complete - photographing a city, a factory, or a series of streets; each has become a major project for me, My initial intention was to produce a comprehensive body of work that systematically records, in an objective way, the images that l have observed. As l now flip through these thousands of photographs, I realize that much of the scenery that l photographed has disappeared forever.

　　China is in the midst of rapid change; huge changes that amaze the rest of the world. Living with these changes sharpens my awareness of the significance of photography and these accumulated images will evoke people’s feelings about their own circumstances, and will become part of their history.

　　I wish to be an honest author of imagery, and to construct a “museum” of images of today’s history with my work.

　　- Zeng Li

　　曾力的摄影作品 在近一个世纪的变迁之后，我们是否应该重新认识历史，重新认只今天中国的图景？摄影通过镜头洞明现实的本质，从这个意义上看，那些直接来自生活现实的影像，也许会成为关注和沉思的影像，也许会成为关注和沉思历史处境的重要文献。

　　在摄影历史上，那些叙述和表达一个时代的作品总是深深地吸引着我。桑德（August Sander）、贝歇夫妇（Bernd & Hilla Becher）和沙尔加多（Sebastian Salgado）的作品就像一部史诗。还有吕布（Marc Riboud），他所有关于中国的作品，都是中国当代影像史中非常重要和珍贵的部分。从他们的作品中，我获得一种信念和力量。

　　摄影对于我来说是需要几十年来完成的一项持久的工作。拍摄一座城市、一座工厂、一片街区，工作量就像实施一项工程。我的初衷是用一种客观的方式，把所见的景物系统地记录下来，构成一部全景式的作品。现在回头翻阅这些数以千计的照片，发现许多曾经拍摄的场景已经永久的消逝了。中国正处在一个新旧变异的时代，速度之快令世界惊叹，身在其中，我更加意识到摄影的意义，这些不断累积的照片，汇集起来，就会唤起人们对今天生活处境的感悟，成为历史记忆的一部分。

　　我的愿望是做一个诚实的影像作者，用作品建构一座今天历史的影像“博物馆”。 --曾力

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