There is the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, or horse ? But to Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society (FRPS) Lee Han-long (
His latest photographic collection, Dancing with Pigs, which contains more than 200 photographs of pigs that were selected from his collection of more than 20,000, will hit the stores just before the Year of the Pig ends.
As section chief of the Pig Performance Test Station at the Animal Technology Institute of Taiwan's (ATIT) animal resources division, Lee knows all about pigs, having worked with them for more than three decades.
Growing up in the countryside in the 1950s, Lee tended pigs for his mother.
He has already exhibited his work on various occasions over the past few years, he said.
"My passion for photography started in 1979, when I started working for ATIT. I was trying to kill time, started reading photography books and taking pictures of the pigs that surrounded me," he said.
Lee's first piece of photography was taken when he was a sophomore in high school, when he took a black-and-white picture of one of the pigs his family owned, he said.
The piece is included in Dancing with Pigs and is titled Wrinkles on Mother's Face, he said, adding that the picture documented the hard work and perseverance of his mother.
"Pigs are an inseparable part of Taiwanese lives. When I was little, keeping pigs was the way we earned our living," said Lee, a Hakka. "But at the time I never expected it to continue being true as I started working myself."
Asked what motivated him to publish his album, the pig fanatic said: "I wish to present to society a side of pigs that people don't normally see."
The album documents pigs with "various expressions" -- happy, angry, sad and ecstatic -- and under various circumstances, from nursing piglets to scientists producing genetically-engineered piglets, Lee said.
"Contrary to popular perception, pigs are clean, smart, affectionate and are very good friends to humans," he said.
Fast food chain McDonald's is to raise prices by up to NT$5 on some products at its restaurants across Taiwan, starting on Wednesday next week, the company announced today. The prices of all extra value meals and sharing boxes are to increase by NT$5, while breakfast combos and creamy corn soup would go up by NT$3, the company said in a statement. The price of the main items of those meals, if ordered individually, would remain the same. Meanwhile, the price of a medium-sized lemon iced tea and hot cappuccino would rise by NT$3, extra dipping sauces for chicken nuggets would go up
Yangmingshan National Park’s Qingtiangang (擎天崗) nature area has gone viral after a park livestream camera observed a couple in the throes of intimate congress, which was broadcast live on YouTube, drawing large late-night crowds and sparking a backlash over noise, bright lights and disruption to wildlife habitat. The area’s livestream footage appeared to show a couple engaging in sexual activity on a picnic table in the park on Friday last week, with the uncensored footage streamed publicly online. The footage quickly spread across social media, prompting a tide of visitors to travel to the site to “check in” and recreate the
Minister of Digital Affairs Lin Yi-ching (林宜敬) yesterday cited regulatory issues and national security concerns as an expert said that Taiwan is among the few Asian regions without Starlink. Lin made the remarks on Facebook after funP Innovation Group chief executive officer Nathan Chiu (邱繼弘) on Friday said Taiwan and four other countries in Asia — China, North Korea, Afghanistan and Syria — have no access to Starlink. Starlink has become available in 166 countries worldwide, including Ukraine, Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam, in the six years since it became commercial, he said. While China and North Korea block Starlink, Syria is not
GROUNDED: A KMT lawmaker proposed eliminating drone development programs and freezing funding for counterdrone systems, despite China’s adoption of the technology China has deployed attack drones at air bases near the Taiwan Strait in a strategy aimed at overwhelming Taiwan’s air defense systems through saturation attacks, the Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) said. The council’s latest quarterly report on China said that satellite imagery and open-source intelligence indicate that the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) had converted retired J-6 fighter jets into J-6W drones, which the PLA has stationed at six air bases near Taiwan, five in China’s Fujian Province and one in Guangdong Province. The report cited J. Michael Dahm, a senior fellow at the US-based Mitchell Institute, as saying that China has
RSS