When he returned to Tokyo from New York and opened Japan's first food photography studio in 1963, Japan's per capita income was just US $ 522 a year (one 27th of today's) and commercial photography was just getting off the ground, but even then he foresaw that food photography had great development potential.
然而，對黃建勳而言，他終生投注的事業，還不只是讓人「享受用眼睛吃東西的樂趣」，或是幫助產品製造商客戶吸引消費者打開荷包，他從事的是一種掌握時代脈動，改變人類生活﹘ ﹘飲食生活的工作。