Taiwan has more than 600 scenery trucks that drive across the country to serve as the backdrop for shows and entertainment, during religious or family ceremonies. Baptisms (christenings), marriages, funerals, as well as business events or neighborhood celebrations, are an opportunity to deploy these platforms today, flashy, rich with neon figures and mixing folk, traditional opera, vaudeville and contemporary heroes, often from American popular culture. Whether they are set up near a temple, in the suburbs, near a factory, or at a busy intersection, these ephemeral entertainment venues are very popular and amateur actors, usually students who need to earn a bit of extra money perform. During an investigation over several years, Shen Chao-Liang first realized the “portrait” and the spectacular colors of these scenes erected in the night. Then, in black and white and without effects, he asked singers to pose for him in their fringe dresses. Girls in mini-skirts and shorts, often in embroidered bikinis, dress up in time for a fast show and move from one stage to the next.
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Photo Phnom Penh 2015
From January 31th to February 28th, 2015
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