Jia Za Zhi假装是一本真杂志带你寻找地球上富有诗意的人事物 / a fake zine about poetic people and things on the planet

摄影师Ian Teh现居伦敦。他的创作灵感大多来自于他对社会、环境以及政治问题的关注。他想象自己的作品是由剧照组成的一部部短片，充满叙述性，由持续着的时间中的小片刻组成。每个故事都像是将彩色丝线编织在一起，创造出一个特定的场景，既强调了他个人对主体的视角，也积极地带领观者跳脱出作品的框架，亲身去体验图片的丰富多彩。他的摄影已在许多国际知名的出版物中出现，例如《时代周刊》、《新闻周刊》、《纽约客》和《独立》等。

假杂志选择的这些作品来自他的“融合的边界”系列。Ian Teh数次沿着中国境内游历朝俄边界共计近千公里。这是一个被三方选定为特殊经济圈的地区，做为曾经的共产主义同盟国，三个邻邦在相互合作的基调下计划将这里培育成一个跨境商贸的自由区。从喧闹的为迎合俄罗斯游客和商人的中国市场到邻近朝鲜边界的死寂的中国小镇，这个系列探究了这个由政府发起的“人造的特别经济区”的奇异生活。

Ian Teh is a photographer based in London. Much of his artistic creativity stems from his interests in social, environmental and political issues. He imagine his work as a series of short films made out of stills. They are narratives that are built on moments of time collected over extended periods. Each story is a woven fabric of compositional and colour threads that come together to create a particular ambience intended to both emphasize his perspective on the subject matter and to, hopefully, encourage the viewer to take the narrative beyond the limits of the frame, into a direction that makes the experience of those images more vivid. His photographs have been widely exhibited and featured in several international publications such as, Time, Newsweek, The New Yorker and The Independent Magazine.

These works are from his Merging Boundaries seires. This is a journey, a 1000 kilometre road-trip, made several times along the frontiers of Russia and North Korea on the Chinese borer. It is a region that has been designated as a special economic zone, designed to foster relationships and cross-border trade in a mood of economic cooperation between these neighbouring countries who once considered themselves as the bastions of Communism. From the hustle and bustle of the Chinese markets catering to Russian tourists and entrepreneurs to the deadly quiet Chinese towns near the North Koea border, this work is an exploration of the surreal lives that exist in these artificial places, special economic zones that have been created by governmental madates.

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在过去十年里，摄影师Jasper James先后定居纽约、伦敦、北京，看过许多大城市的全景，他对此感慨万千，故做了一个“人和景观”系列。我写邮件询问这个系列的初衷，这是他的回答：
我曾到过许多大都市，像东京、北京、上海，每次都想尽量爬高些以看到城市的全景和规模。我认为将个人和城市景观结合在一张图片中，视觉上看上去很有意思， 同时能以直接的方式表现出两者对抗的力量。大城市真是很奇妙，那么多人住在一起，充斥着各种各样不同的故事、希望、梦想，但是我们能够相互联系的就是一小 部分人，绝大多数都是陌客。我做这些图片的时候尝试过很多种方式去达到效果，其实这些作品也都是试验性的、与初衷有偏差的。

Over the past decade Jasper James has lived and worked in New York, London and Beijing. He saw many landscapes of big cities in the world and has lots of words to say, resulting in the “People and Places” series. I wrote to him asking what’s the idea of this series. Here is the answer by him:
I was visiting a number of big Cities such as Tokyo, Beijing, Shanghai and always tried to get as high up in the city as possible to give me an overview and a sense of scale to the size of the City. I thought by combining the individual and the cityscape in one shot it would be interesting visually and also in a very open way the two would then play off each other. I find big cities fascinating, with the huge number of people going about their lives, all the different stories, hopes and dreams, but we can only connect personally with a tiny number of people, on most levels we are all strangers. I tried a few ways of actually making the images, but it was basically trial and error until I got the results that you see.

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