Chien-Chi Chang (張乾琦) is a Taiwanese photographer and member of the Magnum Photos agency. Taiwan in 1961, he earned his BA from Soochow University in 1984 and an MS from Indiana University in 1990. He has worked for The Seattle Times (1991-1993) and The Baltimore Sun (1994-1995). Chang has documented the life of illegal immigrants in New York's Chinatown, but he is also known for documenting his homeland of Taiwan. He won the W. Eugene Smith Fund for Humanistic Photography in 1999. In 2004 he married an ex-journalist who is currently the president of the Radio Taiwan International. He lives in Taipei and in New York City. His photographic work, which deals with the "abstract concepts of alienation and connection" and "draws on his own deeply divided immigrant experience,"includes:
I Do I Do I Do (published by Ivy Liu/Premier Foundation 2001): in response to his parents' pressure to marry, Chang began photographing newlywed couples in Taiwan. The work has been repeatedly described as "a jaundiced look at marriage", including images such as a couple still in their wedding garb asleep separately at the back of a limousine, and a bride picking a backdrop for her wedding photos in a field of ruins.
The Chain (published by Trolley Books 2002): documenting inmates at the Long Fa Tang ("Temple of the Dragon") in Taiwan. The inmates, numbering about 700, are mentally ill patients no longer recognized by their families. The mental institution's inmates work on the island's largest chicken farm, often chained together in pairs, separated only when they sleep. ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chien-Chi_Chang

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