Description
Ghost in the Park – A Taiwanese Park That Exists Only at Night
By day, they are ordinary animal sculptures scattered across parks, temples, and street corners. At night, lions, tigers, elephants, and deer seem to come alive through photography.
For six years, Peng Yi-Hang traveled across Taiwan in search of these animals that had never truly been alive. Using long exposures and a flashlight, he sometimes spent up to two hours making a single photograph. During these extended exposures, light, time, and movement accumulated on the film, revealing scenes invisible to the naked eye.
But something strange happens: the animals remain, while the photographer disappears.
Dressed entirely in black, Peng enters the frame to illuminate the sculptures, only to vanish from the final image. Lifeless animals become ghosts, while the living photographer becomes a ghost within the photograph.
Ghost Park uses photography to summon a world that does not exist—in between reality and illusion, visibility and invisibility. It invites us to look again at the familiar landscapes of Taiwan, and at the strange, forgotten creatures we pass by every day without truly seeing.
Open the book and enter a park that exists only in photographs.
