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Jet Lag  -- Chien-Chi Chang
Cheing-Chi Chang is a Taiwanese/American contemporary photographer. His photography style fixates primarily on abstract elements that relate to themes of connection, disconnection, distraction, and isolation. His photobook series, Jet Lag is a series focusing on his muse of disconnection and the in-between spaces that offer continuity in this often interrupted and fragmented reality. The images are black-and-white photographs of hotel rooms, airports, and Chang himself, to illustrate a traveler lost in transit. Though the images most often feature inanimate objects, the flickering filters used depict the disconnections that manifest among families, countries, partners, as well as time and space. Chang’s photographs create a blanket statement of disconnected reality across the individual, global, and spatial levels. 

What sets Chang’s images apart from other photographers is his ability to create movement in still images and stillness in moving images through the merging of soundscape. Chang decided to become a photographer as a way to express his thoughts and feelings about being a divided immigrant. Chang draws on his own experiences of disconnection to evoke the emotion of these interpersonal binds seen in his photographs. To create his images Chang experiments with 35mm format film, as well as a medium 6x7 rangefinder. He typically snaps his shots with single frames to ultimately create nine-frame contract sheets. This method allows Chang to create a sequential record of his experiences traveling. Chang merges traditional contact sheets with digital photography to create truly unique images that stand out.

6:30 am --Robert Weingarten

On a whim, Robert Weingarten quit his career in finances. After thirty-five years of stability, the NYC native chose to pursue photography. Weingarten’s work is featured in the George Eastman House and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 6:30 AM was described as a “digital mashups composed entirely in Photoshop”. Weingarten’s photos vicariously represent the lives of subjects through the landscape. One features famous subjects, but rather than photograph celebrities, Robert photographed scenes that held significance to his subjects. These images are edited in Photoshop, where he creates metaphorical representations of subject portraits. Weingarten describes his photography as “translucent composite” . Weingarten’s process is unique in its deliberate omission of subjects and Monet-like qualities. While considered a landscape photographer, Weingarten’s photographs exhibit human qualities based on his subjects.

Yip Cheong Fun --An ingenious reverie

Yip Cheong Fun is a Singaporean documentary photographer, well-known for his seascape photographs. Limited in equipment, he made the most of his materials and created humanistic photos by manipulating lighting. He chose to pursue photography more seriously when he turned fifty out of the desire to share stories of social change related to Singapore’s history and his experiences in Singapore. He uses trial-and-error and passion to drive his images and make up for his limitations in resource and guidance. He found that the most important elements to create a solid photograph are timing, lighting, and composition. His techniques included cropping and enlarging photographs for editing. He stayed clear of darkroom techniques and used his intuition to signal when to take the best shots. One of his most famous shots, “Rowing at Dawn” is the third image shown below. This particular photograph won many awards.