盤龍，一位結合藝術家與企業家身份的攝影創作者，現任商之器科技（EBM Technologies）董事長。雖以醫療影像軟體聞名亞洲醫療界，但他更以其細膩、寧靜的攝影風格，在藝術領域展現獨特視野。

出生於台灣，盤龍早年以技職背景投入電子與軟體工程，二十四歲便創立 EBM 公司，系統如今已部署於全球超過 3,500 家醫院。事業之餘，他從未放棄對美學的追尋。意識到產品設計的關鍵在於審美素養，他於中年時毅然攻讀國立台北藝術大學美術學系博士班，專研大眾攝影與藝術贊助，並結合康德哲學與日本美學進行創作實踐。

盤龍的攝影語言講求「觀看的氣質」與「無功利的凝視」。他以慢節奏、低干預的方式紀錄城市與自然中的光影變化，作品常以留白、缺席主角與靜物構圖表現情感懸浮的氛圍。從〈西雅圖風情〉到〈夏威夷關係〉、從〈安靜〉到〈畫框內科技與畫框外意涵〉，每一次展覽皆為視覺與哲思的結合。

他的創作深受川端康成文學美學啟發——如《雪國》中的空間感、《千羽鶴》的情緒留白、《古都》的物哀意識，這些都可在盤龍的攝影中找到視覺對應。他說：「我的攝影，不只是觀看世界，更是修煉感官的方式。」

他亦創辦宜蘭「盤龍影像美術館 Salon de Pan」，以回饋地方文化、推廣影像美學為使命。其出版著作包括《拍・一種心情》（2011）與《美學修煉》（2025），後者更引起設計、心理學與企業領域的廣泛關注。

盤龍的攝影創作，是對世界的沉思性回應，是技術之外的詩意平衡。透過影像，他持續實踐著一種信念：「美不必嘶喊，美可以很輕——像霧、像光、像一段不需解釋的餘韻。

Artist Biography: William Pan

William Pan is a photographic artist and entrepreneur, currently serving as Chairman of EBM Technologies. Though widely recognized in Asia’s medical community for pioneering imaging software, he has carved out a distinct voice in the art world through a photographic style that is both delicate and contemplative.

Born in Taiwan, William Pan began his career with a technical education in electronics and software engineering. At the age of 24, he founded EBM, a company whose systems are now installed in over 3,500 hospitals worldwide. Despite his business success, his pursuit of aesthetics has never wavered. Recognizing that true innovation lies in refined sensibility, he later enrolled in the doctoral program in Fine Arts at Taipei National University of the Arts, specializing in mass photography and the philosophy of arts sponsorship—merging Kantian thought with Japanese aesthetics in both theory and practice.

William Pan’s photographic language centers on the temperament of seeing and the non-utilitarian gaze. His slow-paced, minimally intrusive approach captures light and form in urban and natural settings. Emotion in his work is often conveyed through absence—empty space, missing protagonists, and quiet still lifes. From Seattle Sentiments to Hawaiian Relations, from Silence to Technology Within the Frame, Meaning Beyond It, each exhibition is a confluence of visual elegance and philosophical reflection.

Deeply influenced by the literary aesthetics of Yasunari Kawabata, William Pan’s imagery echoes the spatial sensibility of Snow Country, the emotional ellipses of Thousand Cranes, and the mono no aware of The Old Capital. “Photography for me,” he says, “is not just a way to see the world—it is a way to refine the senses.”

He is also the founder of Salon de Pan, a private image museum in Yilan, Taiwan, dedicated to regional cultural engagement and the promotion of photographic aesthetics. His publications include Shooting, a Mood (2011) and Cultivate Aesthetics (2025), the latter gaining traction in fields as diverse as design, psychology, and business.

William Pan’s photographic journey is a meditative response to the world—a poetic counterbalance to technology. Through his lens, he continues to live out a quiet conviction:
“Beauty need not shout. It can be light—as mist, as light, as an aftertaste that defies explanation.”