对话——玛格南大师班 Ⅱ
Workshop day 2
Forget those classic part of image.
进入了实质性阶段，提交作业和编辑。每个学生选择两组作品分别标上EDIT A和EDIT B，前一个文件夹里选择当天自己认为满意的作品，后一个则是自己不太有把握的，基本上每个文件夹里照片的数量在十张左右，然后由老师选择出他觉得满意的作品放到final picture的文件夹里，在最后一天里进行整体编辑。
按照我们平时的水平，即便是大师级的，一天能出3张好的照片就算是很不错了，想要每天有新的作业上交真是件不容易的事，前一个晚上的event结束后我出去拍了2个小时，回到房间已经是12点过了，以最快的速度挑选，修片，睡觉的时候已经是凌晨2点了，上午7点半起床继续工作，于是第一天的作业总算是交出来了。
根据规定在A和B里各放了5张作品，最大的挑战在于从未遭遇过街头如此冷清的局面，以至于我在接受MAGNUM IN MOTION的工作人员采访时回答说“希望明天我能在街上找到更多的人”。
以下是ALEX和REBECCA选择的照片，惭愧，我还停留在扫街初级阶段……
地铁里匆匆的人群：
平常的夜晚，酒吧依然喧闹：
树影在墙上写下的诗篇：
因为在空中，所以拥抱要很紧：
火车站附近的流浪一族
学生作业都是上传到学校的服务器上的，在好奇心的驱使下我去看了其他班级同学的作品，这一看让我非常激动，其中来自新加坡的Tay Kay Chin（前一天遇见的亚洲面孔）的作品极具创意，完全改变了我们对于传统经典作品的观念，他所在的David Alan Harvey的班级所有学生对他的作品发出了一致的喝彩，以后的每一天review里，大家都对他的新作报以极大的期待，就连David Alan Harvey这样的大师都说 "Now, Let's forget all those B&W classic pictures, move on a new level." 与此同时，在CHRIS ANDERSON的班级里，新形式的作品也得到了极大的肯定，传统意义上构图和光影都完美的照片在传递的同时，更多的“作者影像”和观念也在被接受，如果按照以前的判断标准，估计其中很多照片我会毫不犹豫地扔进垃圾箱，但是当我把这些照片放在一起时，我看到的完全是一个新的组合，这个组合的力量来源于摄影师对影像的控制，而不是被完美影像控制的摄影师。
random walk，photo by Tay Kay Chin：
random walk，photo by Tay Kay Chin：
random walk，photo by Tay Kay Chin：
今天下午，Tay Kay Chin发给我一封信，在得到他的同意后，我也在这里分享给大家：
I have visited your blog a few times to see what others have to say. Thought I should tell you a little bit of what I was thinking. Of course you are free to share with the rest.
Before I went to Oslo, I was very nervous. The Magnum photographers are great heroes to me. I admire almost all of them. I kept thinking what can I do to impress them? In fact, weeks before, I did a lot of research on the Internet, even contacted a belly dancer who I thought would make a sexy photo essay. I also researched a lot on the social condition, immigration issues, etc.
Then suddenly, I told myself: I was only going to be in Oslo for a few days, nothing that I do will have any depth. I decided at that very moment that I should just have lots of fun, enjoy the photography process and do things that I don't usually do. For me to do that, I needed to have a certain level of confidence, that even if nobody liked my images, I was just going to have fun.
For this I have to thank David a lot a lot. When he saw my portfolio (10 pairs of images from Singapore) on the first day, he told me that I should just go out and do what I had been doing. He said I should not worry about making a in-depth story.