Darkroom Print: New York, USA, 1998 Music

Darkroom Print: New York, USA, 1998 MusicIn 1992, drawn to people who like himself were trying to find their way in a new place, Chien Chi Chang began a project on immigrants living in New York Citys Chinatown under no legal protection. This image of a newly arrived immigrant eating noodles on a fire escape was captured in 1998. One year later, Chang was awarded the prestigious W. Eugene Smith Award, and his works compelled the US to pay attention to the rights of Chinatowns labor practices.

captures the vitality and bravado of the United States during the mid-1980s and early 1990s

who was at the time

Book and print signed by artist

originating from a magazine assignment for LIFE magazine in 1957

he documented the town in photographs

with the photographer’s name and date printed below

Their work can be seen and heard on public broadcasters and is distributed in cinemas and at international festivals

photographing the actress both at work and behind the scenes

on the River Clyde

I expected him to offer me one

from his passport to a range of letters (from Janet Leigh

It was the first of several journeys for Morath