[出走地平線：續遊]
Flattening The Curve: Travelling more
曾經有段時間，台灣大力支持年輕人拍片。
問題是，我不是台灣人。
我沒理會，沒有東西能阻擋我。
我很想拍片跟人分享，想了解其他人如何看自己的作品和想法。
所以我不斷參賽。
甚至用假名參加，可以說是獲獎連連。
最需要是奬金，我要錢拍自己下一部作品，但卻沒有權利去領取。
主辦單位都被弄得糊里糊塗。這時一位朋友的朋友找上我，說要為即將開拍的一齣紀錄片自組班底。
這紀錄片小組有台灣攝影師兼製作人阮義忠、張照堂，他們二人都有「被受肯定」的作品，還有畫家兼詩人雷驤。然而最大膽的舉動，莫過於即使我不是台灣人，又是攝影初哥，對方依然邀請我參與拍攝《映像之旅》。
There was a fund at the time to support young Taiwanese film.
Problem was I wasn’t Taiwanese.
I didn’t care. That didn’t stop me.
I wanted to share the films, I wanted to learn how people responded to my work and ideas.
So I entered every competition there was.
I used fake names. But I kept winning prize after prize.
Money prizes that, as much as I actually needed the money to keep making more films, but I didn’t have the right to collect.
The authorities were confused but a friend of a friend knew and he was forming a team to make a new documentary series.
The team got together Taiwanese photographers / filmmakers Ruan Yi-zhong and Chang Chao-tang, famous for their "committed" work and the painter poet Lei Hsiang and then, very bravely I thought since I am not Taiwanese and I was only a beginner, invited me to join them for a series called "Travelling Images".
圖：在街上或角落士多走一圏，如果想出五個新點子，你會發現，自己也是藝術家。（攝於南台灣）
Photo：If you take a walk around the block, or to the corner store and if you come up with five new ideas, you'll realise you too are an artist .（Taken in Southern Taiwan）
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