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1) I read that you were inspired by the stories and fairy tales that you heard when you were a kid, right? Your pictures look like they were taken from books of fairy tales! Which stories inspired you?1）我知道你们制作这期“童话仙境”的灵感是来自你们小时候听来的童话故事是吗？你们作品里的人物看起来真的就像是从童话故事里走出来的！哪些童话故事给了你们这些灵感？

You were probably reading about my most recent work, which is a project I have been producing over the last 20 months called ‘Wonderland’.
你们也许看了我最近的作品，这些作品所属的“童话仙境”系列是我花了20个月构思制作出来的。

The series is actually dedicated to my mother who sadly passed away in 2008. She was an English teacher and read to me almost everyday for many years as a child. When she died I wanted to create a collection of extraordinarily beautiful pictures based on the memories of her tales and the imagination she gave me. My focus was to create a ‘storybook without words’, a fairytale world filled with strange unexplained characters, set in magical landscapes – a place for people to let their imagination be carried away.None of the pictures are based on exact stories or people, they are more like a blur of everything I remembered.
这个系列实际上是我送给我在08年离世母亲的礼物。她是个英语老师，小时候她每天都会给我讲童话故事。在她离开之后，我就想以她跟我说的这些童话故事给我带来的美好记忆和神奇幻想为基础创作出一组极致美丽的照片来。我想创作出一部“不用言语讲述的”童话故事，这个故事发生在一块充满魔幻色彩的领域，上面满是神奇难以解释的角色——在这块领域上，人们可以让自己的想象力尽情发挥。我的作品里没有哪一个是可以说出来是出自哪个故事里的任务，她们都是我记忆中的影像。

So you may recognize elements like a girl with long ‘Rapunzel’ hair. There will be landscapes in the pictures such as the giant candy canes in the woods (Wonderland 24), that may remind the viewer of Hansel and Gretel, but nothing is directly copied.
所以你可能会发现其中某个元素像是“长发公主”里的。照片里会出现《汉赛尔与格雷特》中巨大的拐杖糖，但却不是完全的复制故事中的样貌。

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2) You began taking photographs since when? As a child did you already have a love for the arts?2）你是从什么时候开始拍摄这组照片的？儿时的你是不是就对艺术充满了无限的热爱?

I have only been a photographer for 3 years, my main career has always been fashion design. I have been a designer for 10 years, and before that I worked in costume for film and theatre. I’ve always been involved in art, and studied photography many years ago when I was a student.
我是从3年前才开始做摄影师，我主要的工作还是时尚设计。我已经做了10年的设计师了，之前我曾经为电影和戏剧做过戏服。我一直都处在艺术行业中，我是从多年前的学生时代开始学习摄影的。

I make everything you see in my pictures. I create the entire scene, and then record it all with my camera. For this reason the pictures can take a very long time to produce, sometimes a whole month for one photo.
你在照片中看到的所有物件都是我亲手完成。我创造好一切，然后用我的相机记录下来。也就因为这样，这组照片花了很长时间去制作，有的照片花了我整整一个月的时间来完成它。所以

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3) I noticed that your photos are also strong in color and contrast. This effect creates a perception of another world is this how you add to the fantasty ?3）我发现你的照片里充满了强烈的色彩和对比。你是不是用这种方式来增强你创造的另一个世界的神秘感。

Yes colour is very important I take it extremely seriously. A large part of Wonderland is about trying to explain to people that actually we all live in a real Wonderland . I do not invent fantasy landscapes in the computer using Photoshop; all the locations in the pictures are real. The beautiful fields of flowers, the unusual trees, the snow scenes – all of these places exist, its just that we spend too much time staring at the television instead of looking out the window.  
色彩的确很重要，我也用很严肃的态度来对待它。我创造这一期的“童话仙境”是想向人们表达其实我们也是生活在一个真实的童话仙境中。我不会在电脑上用Photoshop的特效来创造我的幻想天地；照片里的场景都是真正存在的。那些长满了花朵、造型奇特的树木和雪景——这一切都是真实存在的，只不过我们花了太多时间去看电视里的它们而不愿意透过我们的窗口亲眼去欣赏它们。

 It is important to make the picture feel magical, but I also think there is an important message for us to rediscover our natural world again.
让照片呈现出魔幻的色彩很重要，但是我认为让我们在现实世界中去再次发现它们也很重要。

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4) What are your favorite characters from the stories?
4）那么这些故事里你最喜欢的是哪一个？

If you mean who are my favourite characters from the Wonderland series then I think my absolute favourite is ‘The storyteller’ (Wonderland number 29 and 30) The costume was incredibly hard to make, the headdress was made from over a thousand fresh flowers that were picked the night before the shoot.
如果你是问“童话仙境”中我最喜欢的角色的话，那肯定是“吉姆汉森的说书人”。这一款的服装制作难度很大，头饰是由上千朵鲜花做成，这个头饰是在拍摄前一天花了一整晚做成的。

It was a massive effort to produce that picture and I love it dearly. If your question was regarding ‘real’ storybook characters then I have so many it is difficult to chose.MaybeBaba Yaga, and also the Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen.
要做出一张我非常喜欢的照片来要费很大的力气。如果你的问题是问我故事说中的哪个“真实”角色我最喜欢，那我就很难选了。也许是芭芭雅嘎或者是安徒生的白雪公主。

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5) Do you have some other work with photos that is not inspired in tales? Or that’s your identity?
5）那么在你的照片里有什么不是出自童话故事的吗?或者是有你自身特色的东西？

I have lots of work that isn’t inspired by fairytales. Before Wonderland, I took a lot of self-portraits during my mother’s illness when I needed to escape from reality and pretend to have a different, happier life.
有很多。在“童话仙境”之前，在我妈妈生病期间，当我需要从现实中逃离并加装过着一种另外的更快乐的生活的时候，于是我拍了很多自拍。

I guess this is where the seed for Wonderland was sown – my need to create an alternative reality to the real life sadness I was dealing with. So there is often a dreamlike state in my earlier work, but Wonderland is where these ideas are pushed into far bigger productions.
我想这也是我打算拍“童话仙境”的种子发芽的地方——我需要创作出一个选择性的现实世界来逃离现实带给我的伤痛。所以在我的早期作品中会经常看到一个梦想般的国度，但是“童话仙境”则是我这个想法扩大化的成果。