Since Liao, working in the local government, had ample opportunity to observe his town and since he sympathized and identified with what he saw, he turned the focus of his camera on the "people" instead.
廖心銘因為在鎮公所做事，常有機會赴各社區攝影，加上他本來就對這些周遭的題材有認同、親切感，因而焦點經常指向「民間」。