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Taiwan’s rural south through the lens

Ben Sloat’s Yellow in August records Meinung’s landscape and how it is intimately bound up with the cultural heritage and spiritual beliefs of the area’s people

By Noah Buchan  /  STAFF REPORTER

There is much else on view here of interest (I particularly liked Man Harvesting Water Vegetables, a superb photo of a naked man emerging from a swamp that echoes the myth of Nuwa (女媧), the Chinese goddess who fashioned humans from the mire). And although Sloat’s Yellow in August doesn’t provide as large a survey of society as Franks did with The Americans, his photographic journey leads down many fascinating roads.

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