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Cheng Li-Ming

Looking for Siraya

    RELEASE

    2010-01-01

    BUGET

    N/A

    LENGTH

    28 min

    Description

    In 1871, the photographer John Thomson came to Formosa to take photos which became the first images of the island seen in the West. Things have changed after more than a century. I chose one of his photos showing an indigenous mother and her child shot in Mucha, Kaohsiung as the starting point of an exploration of the island’s past and the mysterious origin of its ancestors.

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