{"id":6060,"date":"2013-02-27T08:27:03","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T08:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=6060"},"modified":"2013-02-27T08:27:04","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T08:27:04","slug":"landslides-in-art-part-17-decisive-moment-by-chen-po-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2013\/02\/27\/landslides-in-art-part-17-decisive-moment-by-chen-po-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Landslides in Art Part 17: Decisive Moment by Chen Po-I"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the latest of my occasional series of posts about the depiction of landslides in art.\u00a0 Part 16 can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Chen Po-I is an unusual artist. He trained to Masters Level in Ocean Engineering at National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan before turning to photography.\u00a0 He is now a celebrated photographic artist with a long list of exhibitions.\u00a0 He has a Flickr page depicting some of his work here.<\/a><\/p>\n

His current exhibition is at the Fotoaura Institute of Photography<\/a> in Tainan in Taiwan (there is a brief write-up of it in the Taipei Times<\/a>).\u00a0 The works are interesting and challenging.\u00a0 In 2009 Typhoon Morakot struck Taiwan<\/a>, bringing extremely heavy rainfall that triggered widespread landslides<\/a> and debris flows<\/a>.\u00a0 Chen Po-I has collected a series of images of the destruction that the debris flows caused, focusing primarily on the marks left on walls by the flows:<\/p>\n

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Marakot 2: Photo courtesy of Fotoaura Institute of Photography<\/p><\/div>\n

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Marakot 4: Photo courtesy of Fotoaura Institute of Photography<\/p><\/div>\n

Similar photographs to this series can also be found on Chen Po-I’s Flickr page<\/a>. These images are all rights reserved, so I cannot reproduce them here, but they are well worth a look.\u00a0 It is worth pondering what it would have been like to have been in one of these rooms as these landslides occurred.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chen Po-I has collected a beautiful set of images, on display in Taiwan, of the aftermath of landslides in Taiwan due to Typhoon Morakot. This is the latest in the Landslides in Art Series<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":6061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[584],"tags":[502,57,469,142,81,975],"class_list":["post-6060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-2","tag-art","tag-debris-flow","tag-featured","tag-morakot","tag-taiwan","tag-typhoon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}