Infrared Film by Xiaoxuan Lu

Post-war landscape.

2012-08-15

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设计公司: :; Xiaoxuan Lu
类型: :; Art
标签: :; Red
分类: :; Photography

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Appreciation towards Xiaoxuan Lu for providing the following description:

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MAG bomb clearance site
Xieng Khouang, Laos

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Hydropower construction site
Xieng Khouang Province, Laos

战争是最为强烈的和影响深远的人类活动之一。战争导致生态环境的巨大变化并对城市、地区产生深远影响。老挝，是世界上被炸得最严重的国家之一。在1964至1973的9年中，有约0.84吨（人均）
的炸药被投掷到这片土地之上。战后，有大约8000万的未爆炸的集束炸弹（UXO）散布在老挝境内——那些生活在遍布着未爆炸弹的区域的百姓的生命受到极大威胁。未爆炸弹对食物生产、基础设
施建设、用水及卫生安全，以及学校、医院的发展建造都有着极大的影响。

2011年，我获得哈佛大学景观学院的penny white研究基金，于2012年一月前往老挝进行实地调研。一路上，我用红外线胶片记录下老挝境内湄公河两岸的景观——它们曾经在越南战争中被严重破坏，并在战后的岁月中长期影响着这个国家的发展。

‘…红外线胶片最初被开发用于军事伪装检测。这种空中侦察胶片，能够捕捉不可见的红外光光谱，在胶片上将绿色植被呈现为淡紫色，深红色或粉红色的鲜艳色调… 红外胶片因此可用于记录下景观中‘生与死’的界限——植被将在这种特殊胶片上呈现出酒红色，粉色或紫色，而人造材料则会呈现出黑白色调。’

（来自：BLDGBLOG)

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Mekong River in dry season
Vientiane, Laos

War is one of the most intensive and far-reaching human activities that cause ecological change and transform urban regions. Laos is per capita, the most bombed country on the planet, with 0.84 tons of explosives dropped per person from the years 1964 to 1973. With about 80 million leftover UXO (unexploded ordnance) remain scattered throughout Laos, populations living around the UXO embedded site are under serious threat. The effects UXO has on food production, infrastructure development, water and sanitation, school and hospital extensions, etc. are profound.

With Harvard GSD Penny White Projects Fund, I visited Laos in January 2012. I took infrared pictures along the Mekong River to document the landscape in Laos, which was violently disturbed during the Vietnam War and has long-term effect after the war.

‘…Infrared film is originally developed for camouflage detection. This aerial reconnaissance film registers an invisible spectrum of infrared light, rendering the green landscape in vivid hues of lavender, crimson, and hot pink… The infrared film can be used to document the line between the living and the dead in the landscape, as living vegetation when exposed on this film appears in blood-like shades of burgundy, pink, and violet, and artificial materials…fall flat, appearing nearly black & white like blurs and specters in the terrain.’

(source: BLDGBLOG)

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