捉拍槟填海计划受害渔民 大马人夺摄影赛亚军
暌违十年，再有马来西亚人跻入KLPA吉隆坡国际人像摄影大赛前三。29岁的独立摄影师安东（Antoine Loncle），在本次比赛以槟填海计划，拍摄渔民悲歌留影人像摄影夺得亚军。
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00:00In just 10 years, he has been in the top 3 of the KLPA, the Kuala Lumpur International Portrait Photography Contest.
00:0729-year-old independent photographer, Anton, won the first place in this competition with this portrait.
00:13The man in the portrait was influenced by the Plain Sea Project in Penang and may become the last generation of fishermen in Penang.
00:21It was one of the first few trips that we went out onto the sea with the fishermen.
00:28So one of the first trips was we just went very close offshore, kind of understanding the area.
00:35And then after that, we kind of went a bit deeper to follow them in their daily kind of work.
00:40So we left quite early in the morning, you know, before the sun is fully up.
00:47So they had set their nets and they were basically waiting to kind of pick them up at the end of the day.
00:53The way that the light was kind of shining and it just looked like a really nice kind of portrait.
00:59So he was standing towards the bow of the boat and we were kind of spinning a little bit.
01:05But I told the boat driver if we can face it in a specific way so the lighting kind of worked a bit better.
01:11So yeah, then I just took the shot.
01:14It's quite a casual, not very planned kind of photo.
01:20And then eventually it ended up working out really well.
01:23That I took was part of a series, part of a larger project called BILONG.
01:30So that was initiated by the NGO JEDI based in Penang.
01:37So the project was basically looking at sort of the daily lives of coastal fishermen,
01:44the problems that they're facing, more kind of to highlight their struggles and their experiences.
02:05My dad's side is French and my mum's side is Malaysian.
02:10But I was born in Penang, grew up my whole life in Penang pretty much.
02:14So I'm very connected to Penang.
02:19I think that's why the project was quite important to me and why I agreed to work with JEDI on it.
02:25It's an important topic that I think needs a bit more coverage and more people to be aware of.
02:31Because not only is the project mainly for the fishermen but it's for us as well, the consumers of the produce.
02:39Where our food comes from.
02:41It's all very important to us and I think that needs to be addressed a bit more.
02:49That's a big question.
02:53I think this project really kind of reminded me a bit of why I love photography.
03:02I think for a while I've been working in photography and then it kind of gets a bit mundane.
03:08You do a lot of commercial jobs, you do a lot of your normal event photography because that's what pays the bills.
03:15But a project like this really kind of reminds me of photography and its ability to tell stories and make people feel.
03:26It's reminded me of that so I want to do more of that basically going forward.
03:34More documentary work again, more long term projects again.
03:39No fixed plans but that's the general kind of direction I think.
04:04What I hope is for more Malaysians to take part and it's a long term education on visual language, on visual communication.
04:27Because Malaysia is still a very young country in terms of photography in a sort of serious sense.
04:36And fine art, contemporary work needs to be exposed more.
04:44So we hope to be able to encourage more local photographers to tell stories in this way using portraits.
04:53I'm very happy because as you can see a lot of the winners, the finalists here have very strong stories.
05:00And I think it is important for photographers to be able to tell stories.
05:07Not just like taking what they see in the environment but also to create stories to bring out to the audience.
05:18And we see a lot of stories about current issues around the world.
05:25On climate change, on LGBT issues, identity, war and conflict and also personal space.
05:36So I think I'm very happy with what we got this year.
05:48.