LONG Sih-liang was born in 1937 and graduated from the fine arts department of National Taiwan Normal University. In 1962 he began working as an artistic designer at TTV, and also served among the editorial board of the Apollo literary magazine. LONG was also a member of the V-10 visual arts group, a photography society founded in 1971, and designed visuals for many books and Taiwanese films. He passed away in Taipei in March 2012.