黃羊川是位於甘肅的一個偏遠村莊，因為溫世仁先生的電腦援助計畫而普為人知。溫世仁選擇了黃羊川，希望藉由高科技讓偏遠變核心，打造一個理想，可以推廣到中國乃至世界所有窮困地區，使他們快速翻身。
周慶輝到了黃羊川，本來想要紀錄這件公益壯舉，然而在現場，他發現了更迷人、更具備藝術爆發力的題材──黃羊川孩童對於電腦的想像，還有因為外來物引發的創造衝動。於是，原本習慣紀實攝影的周慶輝，開始規劃設計，如何顯影原本只存在於孩童心底、腦中的夢想。
人與夢想之間的關係，這組作品藉由描述與被描述.觀看與被觀看.紀錄與被記錄將紀實影像作為切入當代文化藝術的的載體。由於藝術家的介入將人與社會景觀及地域結合成為藝術家自我營造的”造像”場域中，看似簡單的畫面，捕捉了超越現實的色彩與形影，也含藏了豐富多變的後設元素，呈現出一種難以歸類的當代攝影風格。（撰文/楊照）
Wild Aspirations-The Yellow Sheep River Project: Solo Exhibition by Chou Ching-hui
Yellow Sheep River is the name of a rural village in Gansu Province, China. It became well-known because of Mr. WEN Shiren’s computer assistance program. WEN Shiren chose Yellow Sheep River to realize his dream of turning a rural village into a hub with the help of technology in the hope that such a program could be extended to the other parts of China and the entire world to quickly raise the quality of living for the poor.
At first, Chou Ching-hui went to Yellow Sheep River to document this charity program. Accidentally, he found a more attractive and artistic theme – the village children’s imagination of computers and their creative impulse as inspired by the foreign stuff. The documentary photographer Chou began to think about how to express the dreams in the children’s mind.
Chou’s works are about the relationship between human beings and dreams. Thus, documentary photography becomes a carrier for modern culture, to depict and being depicted, to watch and being watched, to document and being documented. Through his intervention, the artist creates an imaginative space of combining people, society and the locality. The seemingly simple pictures capture the surreal colors and images with a variety of post-modern elements hidden inside and present a unique category of modern photography.（by Yang Zhao）
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