After Retrocession in 1945, as the departing Japanese sold off their cameras or left them behind, more and more Chinese began taking pictures. But the colonial heritage had left Taiwan photography derivative and conceptually sterile.
台灣光復後，因為島上的日本人返鄉之前紛紛典賣了他們的相機，島內的攝影人口逐漸增多起來。