More than just documenting: In addition to recording, preserving, and shaping collective identities, festival, society, and image are also important for the experiential nature of festival photography itself and the embodied nature of images

More than Documenting: Festivals, Society, and Images

In addition to recording, preserving, and shaping collective identity, the experiential nature of festival photography itself and the embodiment of images are also worthy of attention. They open the door to establish the connection between individual emotional experience and traditional culture, and also provide a new space for interpretation and a way to understand the complexity of contemporary society for festival photography, which has long been dominated by the objective aesthetics of social documentary photography.