The woman stood in front of some porcelains

Woman standing in front of display
Woman standing in front of exhibit
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When I entered the room, I found a large number of ceramics on display. Nowadays, there are well-known western ceramic manufacturers such as Meissen and Wedgwood, but the technology originally originated in China. Before ceramics were produced in the West, royalty and aristocrats imported ceramics from China. Therefore, the English word “china” came to refer not only to the country of China, but also to the ceramics themselves.

If you read the descriptions accompanying the exhibits, you can tell how old each piece is. But when it came to the merits and demerits of the pieces, I had no idea. As I looked around for a while, my interest shifted from the ceramics themselves to the people who were looking at them.

As I looked at the people standing in front of the exhibits, some of them seemed as uninterested as I was, while others were deeply interested. The woman in the photo stood filling the space between them. She is looking at the ceramics with an expression that is somewhere in the middle of neither. Neither too enthusiastic nor too indifferent. This ambiguity seemed to fit in perfectly with this quiet space.

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May 2017 PEOPLE TAIWAN

PHOTO DATA

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10144

Shooting Date

Sep 2016

Posted On

May 16, 2017

Modified On

December 6, 2024

Place

Chiayi, Taiwan

Genre

Street Photography

Camera

SONY ALPHA 7R II

Lens

SONNAR T* FE 55MM F1.8 ZA

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