The Manufacturer

Improve your Photo’s Image by WDR Camera

       Sometimes when you want to take a picture under a very bright light, the subject you want to focus on will turn out to be vague due to the intense back light surrounding it. Now, you can solve this problem by using the WDR camera. WDR refers to the wide dynamic range function of a camera. With this function, the camera is able to take clearer images than normal camera, especially under back light circumstances where intensity of illumination can vary excessively.

       For instance, when there are both very bright and very dark areas simultaneously in the field of view of the camera. WDR enables the capture and display of both bright and dark areas in the same frame.  

       WDR camera is also commonly used in surveillance cameras and in some medical applications. In surveillance, WDR allows a camera to filter the intense back light surrounding a subject and thus enhances the ability to distinguish features and shapes on the subject. 

 

Photo Taipei 2010

PHOTO TAIPEI is the very first annual art fair in Taiwan that is solely dedicated to photography-based and video art. Our mission is to create a dynamic platform in Asia for the art in this specific department. The success of our debut edition in 2009 was significant, with 5,000 visitors enjoying 33 art galleries and publishers from not only Asian countries, such as Australia, China, Japan, but also United States and France. PHOTO TAIPEI has therefore drawn worldwide attention and recognition as one of the major Asian art fairs focused on photography and video art.

According to the statistics, Taiwan boasts serious and avid art collectors. While the economic meltdown in 2008 caused a severe impact on the art market, Taiwanese collectors, on the contrary, has been keeping expanding their collections to include contemporary artworks from other Asian countries like China, Japan, Korea, Indonesia, India and Turkey, just to name a few.

This year, confidently standing on the ground of our previous achievements, PHOTO TAIPEI is ready to invite galleries and collectors to participate in this grand event of art in winter 2010. As we strive to reach the goal of becoming the most important platform in Asia for photography-based and video art, we also pay special attention to the development of Asianmarket for the art in this department.

Androgynous - World Press Photo 2010 - Stories, 2nd Award

Photographer: Annie van Gemert, the Netherlands.

When children are still children, they can appear androgynous; namely, it might be hard to tell whether a child in front of you is a boy or girl. The photographer take several shots of people in their young age, trying to convey the idea of ambiguity.

People love to categorize things, it is a human nature. When looking at the photo, audiences would be challenged to adopt the ambiguity. They might feel somehow uncomfortable, because they cannot tell if the person in the picture is a boy or girl. However, it is still an interesting project to let people aware of their own concept toward genders.

Flora Hanitijo - A female photographer

Flora Hanitijo

Bio

"Originally from a little peninsula called Macau, Flora Spent her adolescence in Montreal, Canada.  After university and years of wandering, she moved to New York.  In 2005, She was named by Surface Magazine's 7th avant guardian contest as a young emerging photographer. Flora was the 2008 Peter S. Reed Foundation Grant receipient. She is also selected by PDN 30 as 30 photographers to watch in 2009.

Flora's work has appeared in W magazine, I.D, Conde Nast traveller UK, Tokion, Nylon, Surface, Spex, Dossier Journal and others in the States, Europe and Asia. She is also a frequent collaborator with musicians in the states as well as record labels in Paris and the UK.  She is currently based in New York."