There is a lot of information in Franky Verdickt’s photographs of quiet urban scenes in contemporary Taiwan. These atypical street photos are distinguished by their controlled (cool) color and bright night-time lighting. They artfully blend a hyperreal sharpness of focus with the blur of speed. And, finally, the isolation of the humans in these scenes makes them seem small and insignificant amidst the soaring scale of the surrounding architecture and infrastructure.
The way these pictures are made, Taiwan feels both normal and like a sci-fi, alien place — a cold, impersonal and hostile environment where individual humans seem rather unimportant. It is telling, then, that the artist’s statement (see full text below) is rather political, too, finding metaphorical meaning in the feeling of isolation one can experience on the streets of Taiwan, compared with the political limbo that the state of Taiwan finds itself in relation to mainland China and the rest of the world.
—Jim Casper - Lensculture
The way these pictures are made, Taiwan feels both normal and like a sci-fi, alien place — a cold, impersonal and hostile environment where individual humans seem rather unimportant. It is telling, then, that the artist’s statement (see full text below) is rather political, too, finding metaphorical meaning in the feeling of isolation one can experience on the streets of Taiwan, compared with the political limbo that the state of Taiwan finds itself in relation to mainland China and the rest of the world.
—Jim Casper - Lensculture
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (TSMC or Taiwan Semiconductor) is a Taiwanese multinational semiconductor contract manufacturing and design company. It is the world's most valuable semiconductor company,[7] the world's largest dedicated independent ("pure-play") semiconductor foundry,[8] and Taiwan's largest company,[9][10] with headquarters and main operations located in the Hsinchu Science Park in Hsinchu, Taiwan.
