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NOTABLE WORKS

  • The Chain (2002) : documenting inmates at the Long Fa Tang ("Temple of the Dragon") in Taiwan. The inmates, numbering about 600, 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.

  • I Do I Do I Do (2002) : in response to his parents' pressure to marry, Chang began photographing newly-wed 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. Finally, Chang got married in 2004 with an ex-journalist who is currently the president of the Radio Taiwan International. The marriage was kept really low profile as most of their friends learned about their union from the gossip of others.



INSPIRATION

From Magnum : ''"Chien-Chi Chang has always been fascinated by the human conditions of alienation and connection. {Link without Title} This meditation on the nature of the ties that bind a person to others and to society is a natural outgrowth of Chang's own experience of the divided life of an immigrant."''


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