Chien-Chi Chang

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Chien-Chi Chang at a Magnum workshop in Barcelona in 2009

Chien-Chi Chang (* 1961 in Taichung ) is a Taiwanese photographer and photojournalist . He is a member of the Magnum Photos photo agency and lives in Graz .

After studying in Taiwan and the USA, Chang worked as a photo reporter for the US newspapers Seattle Times and Baltimore Sun in the early 1990s . Chang has been taking photos for the elite photo agency Magnum Photos since 1995, and in 2001 he was accepted as a full member.

In his photo series, the themes of attachment and uprooting emerge as central motifs. Chang achieved great international recognition with his photo series “The Chain”, which was shown in the Taiwan Pavilion at the 2001 Venice Biennale . In almost life-size black and white photographs, the installation “The Chain” depicts inmates of the Long Ta Fang psychiatric clinic in Taiwan who are linked in pairs by a chain.

“The Chain” was also shown at the São Paulo Biennale , where Chang was embroiled in a diplomatic controversy that was brought up by the group monochrom through its fictional artist Georg Paul Thomann .

In 2003, the photo book “The Chain” was chosen as the best photo book of the year in the US “Pictures of the Year International” (POYI) competition.

Chien-Chi Chang has been accompanying the families of Chinese workers illegally living in New York with the camera since 1992. In 2009 he was represented for the second time at the Venice Biennale with pictures from this series “China Town”. With “China Town”, Chang is one of 15 Magnum photographers who will act as testimonials for the Japanese camera brand Fujifilm in the “Home” exhibition series in 2018 .

For several years now, Chang has devoted himself intensively to the issues of flight and displacement. For example, he accompanied refugees from North Korea across China across the green border to Thailand for National Geographic magazine . In other series, which appeared in Time Magazine , among others , he recorded the fate of the Rohingya in Myanmar in 2016 and in the same year reported on the refugees on the European Balkan route.

Chang processes his impressions photographically and in artistic documentary videos in which photographs, film sequences and original sounds are merged into multimedia essays.

In his most recent photo book “Jet Lag”, Chang reflects photographically the effects that being on the move has on him as a person. In his book, he juxtaposes the media long-distance holiday images of longing for a vacation in black and white of endless escapes from airports, exhausted travelers and rumpled hotel beds. “'Jet Lag' documents the fatigue of traveling, the moments of exhaustion. But also the crankiness of the overnight stay. "

Chang was married to an Austrian photographer for the second time. There were two children from this marriage.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Article “Der Blickfänger von der Mur”, Wiener Zeitung February 24, 2018, viewed on February 27, 2018
  2. ↑ Biographical notes on Chien-Chi Chang on the website of the Chi-Wen Gallery (English), accessed on February 24, 2018
  3. ↑ Chien-Chi Chang's profile on Magnum Photos' website, accessed February 24, 2018
  4. ↑ Description of "The Chain" on the website of the photo agency Magnum Photos (English), accessed on February 24, 2018
  5. ↑ archives of the 60th POYI competition, accessed February 27, 2018
  6. ↑ Archive pages of the 53rd Venice Biennale, viewed on February 27, 2018
  7. ↑ Video with Chien-Chi Chang for the "Home" project, seen on February 24, 2018
  8. ^ National Geographic, Escape from North Korea, accessed February 24, 2018
  9. ↑ Hope and Dispair in a Divides Burma, Time Magazine, December 13, 2016 article, accessed February 24, 2018
  10. ^ Story "Return to Lesbos" on the Magnum Photos website, accessed on February 24, 2018
  11. ↑ Book review by Stefan Fischer, published on November 2, 2015 in the Süddeutsche Zeitung , viewed on February 24, 2018
  12. ↑ Article “Der Blickfänger von der Mur”, Wiener Zeitung February 24, 2018, viewed on February 27, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Chang, Chien-Chi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Taiwanese photographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Taichung