就在杨延康获得首届“沙飞摄影奖”的“创作奖”之后,我陪杨延康去中山大学传播与设计学院给同学做讲座。我记得当时的场面,杨延康的图片在银幕上出现时,学生的反应是颇为热烈的,尤其当中那些以苦难为主题的作品,引起了同学们的兴趣。在提问时,杨延康谈到了对苦难的偏好。在他看来,苦难的意义无疑和信仰密切相关,或者说,正是因为苦难的普遍存在,信仰才 Just after Yang Yankang won the “Creative Award” of the first “Shafei Photography Award”, I accompanied Yang Yankang to the School of Communication and Design of Sun Yat-sen University to give lectures to my classmates. I remember the scene at that time. When Yang Yankang’s pictures appeared on the screen, the students’ reactions were rather enthusiastic. In particular, those works on the theme of suffering aroused the interest of the students. When asked, Yang Yankang talked about the preference for misery. In his view, the meaning of suffering is undoubtedly closely related to belief, or that it is precisely because of the ubiquity of suffering that belief