PHOTOGRAPHY · PLACE · PARTICIPATIONTAIPEI, TAIWAN

ART & PHOTOGRAPHY / 2016—2024

The human presence within a landscape.

風景之中，人的位置。

Photography, local memory and participatory practice.

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A flight of steps runs through dense shrubs towards a low seaside building, with blue water stretching into the distance. — **A Steady Gaze Falls on the Island**2020 · MatsuChing-Huan Chang × Chia-Sheng Wang

01 / SELECTED WORKS

Selected works

From plants and islands to local archives and human memory.

All works & exhibitions09

012023

Rounded green leaves grow along two slender stems; the branch on the right is softly blurred against a beige background.

Before they are uprooted

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Portraits of plants in city alleys, open ground beside farmland and cracks in rocks, made before they are uprooted.

Giclée print, wooden frameChing-Huan Chang

022020

A Steady Gaze Falls on the Island

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Still and moving images with handwritten text observe military sites along the edges of Nangan and Beigan, Matsu, and their relationships with time and nature.

Photography · Video · Handwritten textChing-Huan Chang × Chia-Sheng Wang

032018–2019

Madou Archive Photography

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A collaboration by Ching-Huan Chang and Chia-Sheng Wang, using fieldwork, photographs, lightboxes and booklets to examine how Madou is recorded and classified.

Photography · Lightboxes · Booklets · ExhibitionChing-Huan Chang × Chia-Sheng Wang

042017

A photograph of tall grasses and narrow leaves occupies the right side of a white spread.

Representation of Landscape

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Oral accounts, site visits and photography trace the visible and remembered landscapes of industry and community in Madou.

Photography · Oral accounts and landscape researchChing-Huan Chang

2024 / PARTICIPATORY PRACTICE

The Gentle People of Siwen

From individual lives to a shared neighbourhood narrative. A photographic novel created with people connected to Siwen.

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02 / JOURNAL

Between works

Process notes, exhibition news and stories around the works.

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Process2026.10.06 · RepublishedIn Chinese

攝影構想

對我來說攝影是追尋真理或進步的過程、方法或工具，是藝術表現的手法之一，亦同時天生具備了紀實的特性。

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03 / PERSPECTIVES

Photography as a method

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

“For me, photography is a process, method or tool for pursuing truth or progress. It is one means of artistic expression, while also inherently possessing a documentary quality.”

Ching-Huan Chang, Concepts · translated excerpt

CURATORIAL READING

Three readings developed from the works.

01 / Photography as a method

Beyond looking

A photograph preserves an encounter and opens a question. From Human and Nature to the military sites of Matsu, direction, position and distance become part of what an image asks us to consider.

Human and Nature

02 / Place, memory and archives

Landscape as a relationship

Dovecotes, orchards and old buildings are not isolated objects. Read alongside oral accounts, categories and spatial histories, landscapes reveal relationships built between people and places over time.

Madou Archive Photography

03 / From recording to co-authorship

Images as encounters

The Gentle People of Siwen brings daily experiences into a photographic novel. Image-making becomes a shared process in which who tells a story, and how they are seen, matters as much as the photograph.

The Gentle People of Siwen

04 / CHRONOLOGY

Works & exhibitions

Photography, artist books, site-specific interventions and participatory art.

2024