Huang believes that the primary purpose of photography is to capture "beauty," but that if beauty is all that is sought then photography is liable to fall into superficial and lifeless aestheticism.
黃東焜認為，攝影的原始訴求是「美」，但如果只求「美」，則容易淪為無生命的「唯美」主義，只是浮面表相，缺乏「內心」的感應與激盪。