Event Details

• Date: Friday, December 13, 2019
• Time: 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM
• Location: Pin-to Livros & Musica (47 Rua de Coelho do Amaral, Macau)
• Admission: Not specified

About the Talk

We are honored to invite guests from Taiwan: Cao Liangbin, founder of the Lightbox Photo Library, and Taiwanese art critic Shen Boyi, to Macau to share the current state and challenges of contemporary photography development in Taiwan.

Contemporary photography in Taiwan is developing step by step amidst widespread discussion. The two guests will come to Macau to talk about the diverse photography ecosystem in Taiwan. The event will feature a live online broadcast and a Q&A session. The guests have indicated they will share their insights "without a helmet"—openly and frankly.

Speaker Profiles

Cao Liangbin

• Image creator and founder of the Lightbox Photo Library.
• Holds a Master of Fine Arts from Pratt Institute in New York, USA.
• Selected for the Ministry of Culture's New York Residency Program, Pratt Institute Scholarship, and the New York Gumperson Art Award.

Shen Boyi

• Art critic and image researcher.
• Primarily focuses on contemporary art and photography culture in Taiwan, exploring the tension between contemporary art and photography.

About Lightbox Photo Library

Founded in 2016, the Lightbox Photo Library continues the free, open, and public nature of "photography" and "libraries." Focusing on Taiwanese photographic publications, it undertakes collection and organization work. It also invites public participation to jointly construct a local photography culture. The Lightbox Photo Library regularly hosts a series of lectures, courses, and workshops, using lively and diverse discussions and dialogues to inspire new thinking and action, promote communication between people, and move towards a positive cycle of cultural autonomy and intellectual freedom.