Performing groups in the form of cabarets, song and dance ensembles have been making regular appearances in all sorts of occasions — weddings, funerals and festivities — around Taiwan since the 1970s. Stage trucks, the subject of this photo series, are the mobile carriers exploited by these performing groups, subtly making their way into
the collective memory of the Taiwanese. In order
to create a dreamy and other worldly ambience 
of the stage trucks with their colourful totems 
and lights diffused into the surroundings, all the pictures were shot at sunset. There is an emphasis 
on the presence of the trucks, their existence in the plebeian society, as a strong contrast against reality, that is indescribable and beyond words. The images seek to break away from the visual expression and form of the traditional documentary approach by trending towards a new-angled contemporary mode that seamlessly integrates environmental portraits, visual grouping and category construction. This collection is selected from the STAGE series shot between 2006 and 2011.