When Ma Teng-yueh was photo-graphing five years ago, there were over 200 of these elders still living; today, there are not even 100 left in all Taiwan. Often, the photographs Ma develops and presents to the families of these old people soon become their funerary pictures.
馬騰岳五年前拍照時，文面老人尚有兩百多人，如今全島僅剩一百人不到，經常，馬騰岳拍過的老人，將照片洗給他們家人，很快的，竟成這些老人的遺照。