His father, a doctor, had taken up photography before him, setting up a workroom where he photographed friends and relatives, and ever since the younger Hsu first touched his father's bulky camera with its glass plates when he was sixteen, he felt a growing and compelling interest in photography himself.
光復那年，許蒼澤十六歲，第一次接觸那笨重的大型相機和玻璃底片，加上他父親所擁有的攝影叢書、放大相紙，與材料上的便利，他逐漸對攝影產生難以抗拒的興致。