Tuesday, 05 November 2013

齊柏林看見台灣A view from above


Have you ever seen Taiwan from above? Qi Bolin(齊柏林), an aerial photographer who originally worked at the Ministry of Transportation and Communications, was in charge of recording highway construction from the air, and had since fallen in love with the job. Over the past two decades, the man has captured over 400,000 photos of Taiwan but was shocked by the images he recorded after Typhoon Morakot in 2009. It was then he was inspired to quit his job and spend the next three years to make a documentary on Taiwan. Here`s more.

您從空中看過臺灣嗎?空中攝影師齊柏林,原本在交通部國工局任職,負責空中拍攝高速公路興建過程,讓他因此愛上空中攝影,二十多年來,他拍過四十多萬張空拍照片,不過2009年莫拉克風災,他看到當時大地殘破不堪的景象,十分震驚,這也激起他離開工作崗位,花三年的時間製作一部臺灣紀錄片,一起來看看。

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