"Simile and Metaphor: Chasing Light, Shadows, and Alternative Meanings (比喻之光：逐光追影及它義)" showcases works that early Taiwanese photographers have been creating using traditional photographic equipment and analog cameras since the 1950s, as well as double refraction images, time-lapse videos, and meticulously-created works using modern aluminum wet plate collodion techniques, rayograph, polarizers, digital cameras, and editing software.
Through the composition of light and shadow, these works feature incidents and people with symbols hidden within. The works capture the light of different people and their humanity, cities and spaces, objects, as well as the extended meanings and many metaphors of lines and artificial lighting. The works also depict the shadows of people, culture, the mind, geometry, and a sense of eeriness, as well as subconscious-like, metaphoric shadows. Even in similar lighting arrangements, the atmospheres, photographic approaches, and composition differ between the artists, and every viewer will interpret the symbols and extended meanings within the photographs according to their own life experiences, intellectual foundations, and social and cultural upbringings. The subtle differences in the viewers’ focus and interpretation enrich the narrative and rhetoric of the photographic images. Visit the website of the National Center Of Photography and Images to find out more.