二十年前，李鼎因為父喪與好友徐君豪騎着重機環島。

他想回到童年第一次與父親旅行的太魯閣，尋找記憶裡那碗金針湯；也想再去一次蘭嶼，穿着丁字褲、與飛魚一起游泳的自己。

那趟從失去出發的旅行，後來成為圖文書《到不了的地方，就用食物吧！》，獲得當年度七項圖書獎，並改編為電影《到不了的地方》。

此後二十年，李鼎持續在文學、電影與影像之間創作。

他曾兩度榮獲國際 Promax 頻道行銷金獎；首部執導的電視劇《雲頂天很藍》獲得金鐘獎「最佳戲劇節目獎」；電影《烏鴉燒》入圍第20屆台北電影獎最佳劇情長片。2020年受邀創作《環南時候》，成為臺灣公共藝術計畫中少見以劇情長片進入公共空間的創作實踐。文學作品《穿越時空的味道》，十年來亦持續收錄於臺灣國小國語教材。

無論以文字、電影或攝影創作，李鼎始終關心的，都是同一件事：

人在時間之中，如何相遇、失去，又如何繼續往前。

2025年起，李鼎受Canon Taiwan邀請參與攝影合作，並於2026年以《臺北24小時》系列，在三處場域展出作品。繼導演與作家之後，他也正式以攝影家的身份，向大眾展開另一條已持續二十年的創作軌跡。

本次受綺麗畫廊邀請，李鼎首度以個展《沒有永遠的    ，那一瞬間》A Moment in Becoming，展出四十件橫跨臺灣、京都與芝加哥的攝影作品。

這些作品延續了他在文學與電影中的敘事性，卻也保留攝影才有的偶然——

人物走入光裡、城市露出表情、陌生人短暫相遇，

一個平凡的現場，忽然成為再也無法重來的一刻。

透過這四十件作品，李鼎凝視人、城市、關係，以及生命裡的得到與失去。

在他的鏡頭中，一切都不是已經完成的結論。

每一個眼前的狀態，都是此前種種因緣暫時形成的結果；而下一秒，它又將改變。

那是一個正在生成，也正在消逝的瞬間。

而守候在事發現場的李鼎，為我們留下了那一瞬間的力量。

綺麗畫廊邀請您走進《沒有永遠的    ，那一瞬間》——

因為每一個瞬間，

既是此前種種因緣的結果，

也是此後一切改變的起點。

Gazing at the Cherry Blossoms,
So Many Memories Return

Inspired by Matsuo Bashō’s haiku:

さまざまの事おもひ出す桜かな
So many memories come flooding back—
the cherry blossoms.

Location and Time: Honman-ji Temple, Kyoto  April 9, 2017, 3:11:27 p.m.

Leading LEE
Director, Writer, and Photographer

Twenty years ago, following the death of his father, Leading LEE set out on a motorcycle journey around Taiwan with his close friend, Gino Hsu.

He wanted to return to Taroko, where he had taken his first childhood trip with his father, in search of the bowl of daylily soup preserved in his memory. He also wanted to revisit Orchid Island—and rediscover the person he had once been, wearing a traditional loincloth and swimming alongside flying fish.

That journey, born from loss, later became the illustrated book Anywhere, Somewhere, Nowhere—Passage to food, which received seven publishing awards that year and was subsequently adapted into the feature film Anywhere, Somewhere, Nowhere.

For the next twenty years, Leading LEE continued to create across literature, cinema, and visual storytelling.

He is a two-time recipient of the international Promax Gold Award for channel marketing. His television directorial debut, Somewhere over the sky, received the Golden Bell Award for Best Television Series, while his film Burring Caw was nominated for Best Narrative Feature at the 20th Taipei Film Awards. In 2020, he was invited to create The Time of Huan-Nan, a rare creative undertaking in Taiwan’s public art landscape that brought a feature-length narrative film into public space. His literary work Flavours Across Time has also remained part of Taiwan’s elementary-school Mandarin curriculum for the past decade.

Whether working through writing, cinema, or photography, Leading LEE has always returned to the same question:

How do people meet, experience loss,

and continue moving forward through time?

Since 2025, Leading LEE has collaborated with Canon Taiwan on photographic projects. In 2026, works from his series 24 Hours in Taipei were exhibited across three venues. Following his established identities as a director and writer, he now formally steps forward as a photographer, revealing another creative journey that has been unfolding for twenty years.

Invited by Kieri Gallery, Leading LEE presents his first solo photography exhibition, A Moment in Becoming, featuring forty works created across Taiwan, Kyoto, and Chicago.

These photographs carry forward the narrative sensibility of his literature and films while preserving the element of chance unique to photography—

a person steps into the light, a city reveals an expression, and strangers briefly cross paths.

An ordinary scene suddenly becomes a moment that can never happen again.

Through these forty works, Leading LEE reflects upon people, cities, relationships, and the gains and losses we encounter in life.

Within his photographs, nothing is ever a finished conclusion.

Everything before our eyes is only a temporary state, formed by all the causes and conditions that came before. A second later, it will already have begun to change.

It is a moment coming into being, even as it begins to disappear.

And there, waiting at the scene as life unfolds, Leading LEE preserves for us the power of that moment.

Kieri Gallery invites you to enter A Moment in Becoming—

because every moment

is both the outcome of all that came before

and the beginning of everything yet to change.