HUANG Tse-Hsiu

Otherworldly rocks rise from the shore at Yehliu, their profiles caught in crisp light. When HUANG Tse-Hsiu made this photograph, the north-coast site was a military-controlled zone — closed to most visitors. His images brought Yehliu into public view and helped pave the way for its opening as a destination.

    The picture speaks to a broader longing: to see what is withheld, to stand where one could not stand before, to claim a shared landscape as one’s own. In the 1960s, HUANG’s documentary approach — seen in early exhibitions like Longshan Temple (1961) and Yehliu – Forsaken Paradise (1962) — turned photography into a democratizing act. By revealing the unseen, his work connected people to place, and desire to the right to look.