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張乾琦 pinyin Zhang Ganqi
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1961
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Chien-Chi Chang was born inTaiwan into a working class family. |
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He studied at Soochow University of Taipei.
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1984
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Graduated with a bachelor degree in Art, ( B.A.), he continued his studies in United States |
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and started to develop an interest to photography. |
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1990
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He graduated with a Master degree in Science, from Indiana University, Bloomington. |
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1991
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He began working as a photojournalist at the Seattle Times then at Baltimore Sun.
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1995
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He joined the photography agency Magnum. |
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His series The Chain, a collection of 48 portraits taken in a mental asylum, in Taiwan |
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made him famous in Biennials of Venice ( 2001 ) and Sao Paolo ( 2002 ) |
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2003
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They are published in a book under the same title which obtained the First Place, |
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in Pictures of the Year International, U.S.A. |
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Other topics in his books:
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Marital ties through photos without joy of Taiwanese weddings IDo, IDo, IDo
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2005
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Description of the business around the marriages negotiated between Taiwanese
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and Vietnamese: Double Happiness.
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2008
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His work Doubleness ( begun in 1992 ), on the life of illegal immigrants from China's coastal
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Fujian Province, was first exhibited at the National Museum of Singapore and at the Taiwan
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Pavilion of the Venice Biennale in 2009.
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Awards
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1998
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First Place,
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Daily Life, World Press Photo, the Netherlands
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1998
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Magazine Photographer of the Year
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National Press Photographers Association, USA
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1999
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Visa d’Or
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Visa Pour L’image, Perpignan, France
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1999
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W. Eugene Smith grant
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Memorial Fund for Humanistic Photography, USA
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2003
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First Place
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Pictures of the Year International, USA
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Danièle Sicard
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