Chien-Chi Chang's Role Introduction

Chinese-American photographer Chien-Chi Chang is the only China photographer in magnum photos. 196 1 was born in an ordinary worker's family in Taiwan Province province. He first got a bachelor's degree in English from Soochow University, and then went to Indiana University to get a master's degree in education. From 65438 to 0999, he was engaged in photography, and his main theme was the life of illegal immigrants in Chinatown, New York. He has won the "Photographer of the Year" award in the annual photo contest (POY) organized by the National Photojournalism Association of the United States, the first prize in the daily life group of the Netherlands World Photojournalism Competition (NPPA) (including the first prize in the daily life group photo of the Netherlands), the famous Eugene Smith Humanitarian Fund, and the photographer of the year of the United States.

Chinese name: Chien-Chi Chang.

Jane Chi Chang

Nationality: Chinese American

Place of birth: Taiwan Province Province, China.

Date of birth: 196 1 year

Occupation: photographer

Graduate school: Master of Education, Indiana University, USA

Main achievements: American NPPA photographer of the year

Representative works: Chain, I Willing, I Willing, I Willing, Lost Land, etc.

brief introduction

After Chien-Chi Chang immigrated to the United States, he began to pay attention to the life of immigrants from China, and got to know the meaning of double life. Most people in China signed slave contracts and lived a life of fear and no fixed abode. During this period of life and observation, Chien-Chi Chang began his documentary photography for nearly 65,438+00 years, and it was from this time that dispersion and integration became his later photography theme.

1999 won the "POY" and "Magazine Photographer of the Year" awards organized by the National Photojournalism Association of the United States, and won the first prize of the Daily Life Group of the World Photojournalism Competition of the Netherlands (WPP) in the same year, including the first prize of the Dutch Daily Life Group Photography, the famous Eugene Smith Humanitarian Fund and the American NPPA Photographer of the Year. The winning work is the life of illegal immigrants in Chinatown, New York.

199 1 started his photography career, 1990 worked as an intern photojournalist in National Geographic magazine, 199 1 became a photojournalist in Seattle Times, 1994 joined the Baltimore Sun as a photographer. /kloc-0 was recommended as a associate member of magnum photos in 1995, and became a full member in 20001year, becoming the only Chinese photographer in Ma Genan. Chien-Chi Chang's major works, such as Chains, I Do, I Do, I Do, The Lost Land, etc.

works

Chien-Chi Chang was born in an ordinary peasant family in Wuri Township, Taichung County. Seven local families are all his relatives. /kloc-at the age of 0/0, my father decided to move his family to Taichung City. /kloc-The memory of living in the countryside before the age of 0/0 is imprinted on his mind all his life.

In Chien-Chi Chang's memoir The Disappeared Place, he wrote: "I left my village and childhood memories, but they will remain in my mind forever. I always think of my uncle, aunt, nephew and friends. I have never stopped thinking about my birthplace, but I am getting farther and farther away from it. I went to college in Taipei, then to Indiana, and now I live in new york. "

Chien-Chi Chang has been thinking about the relationship between man and separation all his life, which has become the theme of most of his works.

Chien-Chi Chang's thoughts are vividly expressed in his photo collection Chains. Chains is a collection of portraits of 700 mental patients. These patients are tied together in pairs, and this is their treatment. During the filming, everyone stood in front of the dark background and faced the camera. Most people in the photo tried to escape from the people at the other end of the chain, but they couldn't get rid of them.

Chains once participated in Venice Biennale (200 1) and Sao Paulo Biennale (2002) on a life-size scale, which immediately caused a sensation. The relationship between people expressed in this work actually coincides with Chien-Chi Chang's view on marriage. He expounded this view again in two photo albums-I will, I will, which describes the bride and groom who are at odds with each other, and Double Happiness, which records the current situation of buying and selling brides in Vietnam.

The life of illegal immigrants is another theme of Chien-Chi Chang's concern, which is also an extension of his concern about family and cultural ties and physical separation. Since 1992, he has targeted illegal immigrants in Chinatown, New York. They left their relatives in rural Fujian and lived a hard life alone in the United States. From 65438 to 0999, Chien-Chi Chang won the Eugene Smith Prize for Humanitarian Photography for this project. "I have a special feeling about people's separated lives," he wrote. He said that he had heard countless stories about these illegal immigrants before 199 1 came to the United States. "I found a different truth. Many China people have made great sacrifices here and lived a life of slavery and fear. " In 2008, "Chinatown" was exhibited in the retrospective exhibition of "duality" for Chien-Chi Chang's half-life career held by the National Museum of Singapore.

20 10 The documentary photo collection "Escape from North Korea" featuring North Korean stowaways won the 2065 438+00 Anthropology Multimedia Award. This work tells the life story of Koreans who left their hometown and trudged 3,000 kilometers in China to the new world to challenge their new life.

Chien-Chi Chang joined Magnum on 1995 and became a full member on 200 1.

win a prize

First Prize of Excellent Photographers in American Universities (1990)

America's Best Photo of the Year Award

First prize in the daily life category of WorldPressPhoto in the Netherlands.

Eugene Smith Prize