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Voices of Photography - 攝影之聲 2013 第9期破盤出清

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Issue 9 : 身體與性 Bodies and Sex

禮教社會對於身體與性的感官禁忌，首要就是限制人的眼睛。於是在長期馴化下，我們擁有避開身體與性的「禮貌」視線，以及將原始自然存在的體貌與行為理解為反面意涵——「暴露」(而不將穿衣指為「遮掩」)——的道德標準，將裸體與慾念劃入猥瑣的範疇。身體與性做為人類生命全貌的部份，我們試圖藉由影像提出質疑，重新檢視這條敏感的文化視神經，還給視覺思考的權力。

在這期的《攝影之聲》中，任航以赤裸的軀體作詩，攪動日常的情慾之泉；平川典俊逼視身體感官，揭開被忽略的性別意識 ; Barbara DeGenevieve挑起肉體與慾望的權力問題，遊走禁忌的邊界 ; Stefano De Luigi深入成人影片拍攝現場，直擊色情王國的幻相世界。另外，獨立攝影書庫單元也專訪新銳藝術家Jess Dugan，探討酷兒影像與身份認同，以及她的個人出版經驗。本期的Artist’s Showcase，則翻開台灣中生代攝影家陳敬寶的個人創作筆記，自摸索攝影談起，到製作《檳榔西施》、《迴返計劃》等廣受矚目的系列作品，陳敬寶與我們大方分享創作者不為人知的思路轉折。

從這期開始，《攝影之聲》將隨刊發行一份新的獨立小刊——《SHOUT》! 《SHOUT》是一份向影像喊叫、沒有型態定義、沒有思想束縛、前方路線仍屬未知數的不定型免費刊物。首期登載影像創作者申佩玉的《天之川》，銀河奔放的女體與電光石火間，是攝影的神秘主義與實驗迷幻。

The underlying moral rules and obligations in societies with regards to taboos in bodies and sex limit our vision, training us to shift our eyes "courteously" away from them; the natural state of bodies and sex are also interpreted in a morally negative way -- coining the term "exposed" to nudity rather than normalizing wearing of clothes as “covering”, therefore associating nudity and desires as obscene. The artists and the VOP team try to question this sensitive cultural issue by re-examining it through images, in the hopes to reintroduce our rights in freedom of vision.

In this issue of VOP, Ren Hang constructs poems with nude bodies, stirring the pool of desires in common daily lives; Barbara DeGenevieve raised the issue of power between the flesh and people’s desires, threading on the thin boundaries between taboos and the marginally acceptable; Stefano De Luigi exposes the illusions of pornography by dwelling deep into the shooting scenes of ault films. We also interviewed the up-and-coming artist Jess Dugan in Indie Photobook Library, in exploration of queer images and gender identities, as well as her own experiences in publishing. In the Artist’s Showcase, we introduced Taiwanese photographer Chen Chin-Pao’s personal field notes right from when he started his self-taught journey in photography to his acclaimed projects like Betel Nut Girls and Circymgyration, through which he unreservedly share with us the unseen train of thoughts in the the process of artistic creation.

Starting from this issue, a new zine SHOUT! will be distributed together with VOP. SHOUT is a zine that calls out to images, and has no definite forms, conventiality of thoughts or publishing timeline or future directions. The pilot issue will be Shen Pei-Yu’s Milky Way, a mystical and experimental photography project capturing fleeting moments and female contours to symbolize the universe.