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Time in Salt and Sea: A Landscape Remembered｜Chiu Hsu-Lien

Time in Salt and Sea begins in the salt fields along Taiwan’s coast—a land shaped by co-existence with the ocean. Through photography, this series builds a space of "slow time," capturing traces of labor, light, and salt crystallization as temporal imprints in motion. Salt fields exist on the threshold through the intervention of nature and humans, inviting a seeing of a non-narrative, but poetic atmosphere. 

These images do not aim to freeze moments, instead to embody the sedimentation of time across space. The crystallization of salt becomes not only an imprint of industrial time but also a cultural symbol—formed through the confluence of natural forces and local knowledge. As the tradition of salt farming fades from daily lives, photography has become a medium to restore our relationships with land and sea. It is in the silence of each individual salt crystal that we enter the depth of time—where the lens becomes a slow vessel for seeing and reflection.

Silent Words of Salt Light won the 2025 European Photography Awards Gold Prize and multiple Honourable Mentions, earning international recognition.