最早喜欢照片的时候，觉得里面承载着时间和记忆，还有可以用来无尽想像的故事。但不仅仅如此。曾经也说过摄影是一个动作，按下快门或拍摄键的那个瞬间，成形的图像，构成了摄影最本质的东西。虽然后来数码或手机摄影，可以通过各种修图软件来对图像进行处理，可我还是固执地认为拍摄的那个瞬间定格下来，是一个永恒的东西。

而这个瞬间考验着摄影师的气质和对摄影的认识与理解，以及生活方式等等，它区别与他人的拍摄，成为自己独特的视角，并形成强烈的辨识度。

认识欢岛的时候，她大概21岁，那时在做乐队和拍照，后来她去英国留学，再后来她做时尚摄影多一些。十年间她却从未放弃创作性的拍摄，拍摄对象就是她身边的家人、朋友，也有工作中遇到的超模和演员，大多是极为感性、本能的拍摄，包括胶片、数码和宝丽来。

现在她把十年间的摄影挑出六十张结集出版，命名为“给我一分钟”。60张照片，也暗合了“60秒”，同样还是时间的概念。这个概念不仅是时间的定格，可能更有“跳格”的意味。这十年，是欢岛成长的十年，她去了很多国家，生活也发生了巨大变化。我们非常亲密的共同的好友已经永远离开，新的事物又总是扑面而来。我不知道欢岛在选片时的标准，但我能从她选的六十张照片里看到她的气质，充满迷离、依旧叛逆。

欢岛拍摄对象一定是引起她兴趣的某一类人群，虽然无法准确地定义他们，似乎总有一些边缘又散发着光芒，即使这光是微弱的，经过欢岛的镜头捕捉也使之存在。她喜欢使用闪光灯凝固打动她的瞬间，这种感觉强烈且笃定, 意图去提炼一些必然失去的人、物与时间，也是摄影最迷人的一点，和时间（失去）的游戏。我想在我们内心深处，总需要留给自己最真实的一隅。它们有时狂放，有时低落，却都能令我们温柔以待。我无比在乎照片里体现的情绪和情感，不是人物的姿态、不是动作、不是衣物、不是纹身，而是表情泄露出无法隐藏的东西。生活中，我们总有这样那样的逃离，但我们逃不脱自身，逃不脱身体，某些时刻，我们必须忠诚以待。

大概如此，观看者如我或他人，我们获得一种照片的温度。如果我们切割时间，就像我们的记忆经常错位一样，它们可能缩短，也可能拉长。在“给我一分钟”这个概念里，它是不是又跳出了时间？不知不觉中，也许我们已经忘记了时间，只记得这六十张照片带来的温度。它有点灼热，也有些疏离，你走不近也离不远。这时你感应到的镜像就不只是欢岛带来的，还有你内心深处的击中或者回望。

The Temperature of Flash 

By Mino

Far back when I first started to adoring photography, I think it bears time and memory, and the story that could live in endless imagination. But it’s so much more than that. I used to say that photography is an action, it’s the moment that the shutter drops, the visual that it forms, which constructs the essence of photography. Even though after that, the digital and mobile phone photography could be tempered with using all sorts of applications, I still believe stubbornly that what’s captured in that moment, is eternal. 

And that moment tested the photographer’s temperament and his/her perception as well as understanding of photography, together with his life style and many other aspects; the moment separates the shoot from others, to form a unique perspective, and to create a strong impression. 

When I first met Joy Island, she was around 21, she was in a band and taking photos back then, and then she studied in the U.K., after that she did fashion photography more. During the decade, she never ceased to do experimental creative photoshoot. The subjects are her families, friends, and also the super models, actors she crossed path with during work. Most of the photos are perceptual and instinctive, which includes film, digital and polaroid. 

Now she selected 60 photos during this decade to publish, naming it “Give me 1 minute”. 60 photos, coincide with 60 seconds, it’s still in line with the concept of time. It's not just the frozen moment of the time, but rather what skipped that moment. This ten years, is the time that Joy Island grew as a photographer, she went to different countries, and experienced tremendous changes in her life. A close friend of ours has left us forever, but new things are always pouring in. I don’t know how she selected these 60 photos, but I can see her somewhat sophisticated and still rebelling temperament through them.   

Joy Island’s subject are always the bunch that intrigued her. Although you cannot define them exactly, you can see there is light rimming around the edges, as weak as the light might be, it still exists in her lenses. She loves using flash light to freeze a touching moment, that feeling is strong and firm, she intended to capture the people, objects and time that she destined to lose. This is also the most enchanting thing about photography, how it plays this game of losing with time. I think deep down, we all need to reserve a piece that’s truly real to ourselves. Sometime it's wild, sometimes it’s down, but it deserves our tenderness. I totally care about the emotions and feelings showing through these photos, it’s not the gesture, not the pose, not the clothes, not the tattoo, it’s rather what’s the expressions are revealing. In our life, we always have escaped from this or that, but we can’t escape ourselves, or our bodies, at some point, we have to be honest.

It’s roughly so, the viewer like me or others, we get a kind of temperature from a photo. If we can cut through time, it’s like our memories often misplace themselves, they can be shortened, or lengthened. In this concept of “Give me 1 minute”, does it skip the time altogether? Unconsciously, maybe we have forgotten about time, we are only left with the temperature of these 60 photos. They are a little scorching, a little distant, you can’t get really close or far away. In this moment, what you see is not just what Joy Island captured, but also what clicked or reflected deeply in your heart.