Name: 【TED】Becci Manson: 修復相片,重振人生 (Becci Manson: (Re)touching lives through photos)
Uploaded: 2013-03-11T05:35:30.000Z
Duration: 9 min 50 s

Before March, 2011, I was a photographic retoucher

We make skinny models skinnier, perfect skin more perfect,

我們會把乾瘦的模特兒變得更瘦，完美的皮膚變得更精緻

and we get criticized in the press all the time,

but some of us are actually talented artists

但是有些修圖師真的是不折不扣的藝術家

and a real appreciation for images and photography.

On March 11, 2011, I watched from home, as the rest

在2011年3月11日，我和世界各地的人一樣

of the world did, as the tragic events unfolded in Japan.

Soon after, an organization I volunteer with,

不久之後，我參加的一個志工團體(All Hands Volunteers)

All Hands Volunteers, were on the ground, within days,

I, along with hundreds of other volunteers,

so I decided to join them for three weeks.

所以我決定和他們一起努力三周

On May the 13th, I made my way to the town of Ōfunato.

It's a small fishing town in Iwate Prefecture,

這是一個坐落在岩手縣內的小漁村

one of the first that was hit by the wave.

這是其中一個被海嘯首當其衝的地方

The waters here have been recorded at reaching

As you can imagine, the town had been devastated.

就跟你想像的一樣，整個城鎮都毀了

We pulled debris from canals and ditches.

We cleaned schools. We de-mudded and gutted homes

整理校園，也把住家內外的泥濘都清除

We cleared tons and tons of stinking, rotting fish carcasses

我們清理了數以噸計的，噁心腐爛的死魚屍體

我們弄得全身髒兮兮的，但我們也樂在其中

For weeks, all the volunteers and locals alike

志工們和當地居民都在找類似的東西

They'd been finding photos and photo albums

They were collecting them up, and handing them in to

various places around the different towns for safekeeping.

Now, it wasn't until this point that I realized

我才發覺這些照片對這些人來說

of the personal loss these people had felt.

As they had run from the wave, and for their lives,

絕對是沒有任何東西可以帶走的

At the end of my first week there, I found myself

helping out in an evacuation center in the town.

I was helping clean the onsen, the communal onsen,

This happened to also be a place in the town where

the evacuation center was collecting the photos.

This is where people were handing them in,

and I was honored that day that they actually trusted me

Now, it was emotional and it was inspiring,

接下來發生的事則有點來自衝動和靈感

and I've always heard about thinking outside the box,

我一直都知道要跳脫固有的框架

but it wasn't until I had actually gotten outside of my box

但是一直到我真的跳出來想一想

As I looked through the photos, there were some

some still in the envelope from the processing lab,

that I could fix that tear and mend that scratch,

心裡想我可以把這些破損和刮傷都整理好

and I knew hundreds of people who could do the same.

而我也認識上百個也能這麼作的人

So that evening, I just reached out on Facebook

the response had been so overwhelming and so positive,

看到大家的回應都是正面而且大快人心的

Not terribly damaged, but where the water had caused

但是女孩臉已經因為浸水而掉色了

had to be repaired with such accuracy and delicacy.

這需要絕對的精準與細心來完成修補

Otherwise, that little girl isn't going to look

否則，女孩的臉會變得更不像她

like that little girl anymore, and surely that's as tragic

Over time, more photos came in, thankfully,

更多的照片被送來，我們也需要更多的修圖師

and so I reached out again on Facebook and LinkedIn,

所以我又在一次的在臉書還有推特上發文

and within five days, 80 people wanted to help

to the neighboring town of Rikuzentakata,

我們延伸觸角到鄰近的陸前高田市

Once a week, we would set up our scanning equipment

我們每個禮拜都會在臨時的相片中心

in the temporary photo libraries that had been set up,

where people were reclaiming their photos.

人們可以在這裡認領他們的相片

The older ladies sometimes hadn't seen a scanner before,

有些老婦人甚至沒有看過掃描機

but within 10 minutes of them finding their lost photo,

they could give it to us, have it scanned,

uploaded to a cloud server, it would be downloaded

somewhere on the other side of the globe,

The time it took, however, to get it back

然而，把照片拿回來要花多長的時間