公視 日光大道 主持人 曾寶儀 專訪 張雍
PTS (Public Television Service) Taipei, Taiwan.
interview with Simon Chang/ 2011
http://www.locuspublishing.com/events/1111TN024/
http://www.youtube.com/user/simon608143279?feature=guide
Simon Chang
spotsonscreen@hotmail.com
Born in Taipei, Taiwan in 1978, Simon Chang is a graduate of the department of communication arts at Fu-Jen University. In 2003 he moved to Prague in the Czech Republic, and enrolled in Master’s program in photography at the Prague Film and Television Academy of the Performing Arts (FAMU). Simon has taken stories with deep cultural depth and the reactions of people to different environments as the main topics of his creative work, focusing on marginal people overlooked by mainstream society. While in Prague, he shot photo essays of the largest psychiatric hospital in central Europe, hunters in the countryside, traditional Czech circuses, Hungarian gypsy villages, and the Czech porn industry. Simon made a record of his time in Prague with two photography books with text:
Simon moved to Slovenia in 2010. Short afterward his little baby joined him in the spring of 2011 on this meaningful journey. For his third volume
Simon Chang won the 2011 Kaohsiung Award, an important award in the contemporary Taiwanese art scene, sponsored by the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts. He also won the Best Reportage of the year (People) with his
He has held exhibitions of his photos and short film series in the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Slovakia, France, Germany, Moscow, Taiwan, etc.
Simon’s photography series and video work has been collected by the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts in Taiwan, and also the Transitland EUROPA video archive (1989-2009).
Website:
www.simon.chinito.com
www.facebook.com/simonchanginprague
