Chien-Chi Chang (; born 1961) is a photographer and member of Magnum Photos. Life and work Chang was born in Taichung, Taiwan. He received an MS from Indiana University, Bloomington and a B.A. from Soochow University, Taipei. He joined Magnum Photos in 1995 and was elected as a full member in 2001. He lives in Taichung, Taiwan and Graz, Austria. Chang focuses on the abstract concepts of alienation and connection. "The Chain", a collection of portraits made in a mental asylum in Taiwan, was shown at Venice Biennale (2001) and the São Paulo Art Biennial (2002). The nearly life-sized photographs of pairs of patients chained together resonate with Chang's look at the less visible bonds of marriage. At São Paulo Art Biennial he was involved in the Thomann controversy. Chang has treated marital ties in two books—I Do I Do I Do (2001), a collection of images depicting alienated grooms and brides in Taiwan, and in Double Happiness (2005), a depiction of the business of selling brides in Vietnam. The ties of family and of culture are also the themes of a project begun in 1992. For 21 years, Chang has photographed and videoed the bifurcated lives of Chinese immigrants in New York's Chinatown, along with those of their wives and families back home in Fujian. Still a work in progress, China Town was hung at the National Museum of Singapore in 2008 as part of a mid-career survey and at Venice Biennale (2011) as well as at International Center of Photography, New York (2012). Chang's investigation of the ties that bind one person to another draws on his own divided immigrant experience in the United States. Awards 1998: Visa d'Or, Visa pour l'image, Perpignan, France 1998: Magazine Photographer of the Year, National Press Photographers Association, US 1998: Second prize, Daily Life singles, category, World Press Photo, Amsterdam 1999: First prize, Daily Life stories category, World Press Photo, Amsterdam 1999: W. Eugene Smith Grant, W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund for Humanistic Photography, New York 2003: First place, Best of Photography Book (The Chain), Pictures of the Year International, US. Books and selected monographs Chang, Chien-Chi, The Chain, Photographs by Chien-Chi Chang. Taipei: Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 2001. Chang, Chien-Chi, I Do I Do I Do. Taipei: Premier Foundation, 2001. . Chang, Chien-Chi; Lai, Cheryl, The Chain. London: Trolley, 2002. . Chang, Chien-Chi; Dowling, Claudia Glenn, Double Happiness. New York, NY: