自拍者:尺笺传影(与许雷合作)

Selfiers: Sealed with Images (with Xu Lei)

2016

 
 

生活在不同城市的我们分别虚构两位1980年代身处异地且身份不同的摄影爱好者,此二人围绕“自拍”这个主题分别实践,并以书信的方式互相交流拍摄经验和想法。

首先,我们寻找一些现成的摆拍照片(这也是再创作的主要素材),并把自己的脸合成到这些照片的人脸上——你可以发现这是合成上去的。接下来是写信,模拟那个年代两个摄影师的信件交流,主要探讨如何处理自拍,也会涉及其他内容。收信者阅毕信和所附照片的内容后,做一张或者几张照片,再写另一封信寄给对方。如此循环。最后以(伪)文献的形式来展呈,同样,在呈现的一些细节里,依然可以看到制作或者伪造的痕迹。

基于共同的规则,我们尝试在创作过程中进行相对个人化的线索梳理。何博通过加工自己父亲年轻时照片,试图将父亲热衷谈及的往事落实到具体的影像层面,希望以此思考整理父子之间的关系。许雷通过对福州代表性景点留影照的解读重构,并结合文字、档案等,以期从一个侧面对当时摄影及相关活动进行梳理,探索影像在社会发展中的独特价值。

Living in different cities, we create two fictional amateurs of photography in 1980s. We took self-portraits separately and kept in touch with each other by letters to discuss our experiences and thoughts on photographing. 

Firstly, we use some found-photos or old photos belong to ourselves that are the main resources of recreation to cover our faces onto the faces on the original photos. One can easily find out the traces of the digital synthesis. Then we mimic the communication method of writing letters in 1980s to discuss how to deal with taking self-portraits and other things. After reading the letter and photos from A, B must make (or fake) one or several photos and also write a letter, send them to A. Circulate like this. Finally we display our works in a documentary (mockumentary) way. 

Basing on the same rule, we try to sort through some personal threads of our own stories in the project. By recreating his father's photos in the early years, He Bo intends to revive the past stories about which his father has talked a lot from those still images. He Bo wants to think about the relationship between he and his father in this way. Xu Lei reconstructs some old souvenir photos that were taken in the city of Fuzhou. With photos, words and archives, he tries to do some studies on the practices of photography in Fuzhou at that time and look for the value of photography in the development of society.