HONG KONG.- In celebration of its 50th anniversary in Hong Kong, Fuji Photo Products Co. Ltd. is collaborating with FUJIFILM and Magnum Photos for the first time present the project “HOME”. The exhibition displaying works by 16 award-winning photographers is being held in Pao Gallery, 4/F, Hong Kong Art Centre, 19-27 August 2018. The photo exhibition will tour in eight cities around the world starting in March 2018.

16 Magnum photographers explore the theme of “HOME” for the project. This project invites them to explore a universal subject familiar to us all. By using the same model of camera (FUJIFILM GFX 50S), the 16 photographers present “HOME” with various individual practices as well as emotional, biological, cultural and societal association. Magnum Photos represents some of the world’s most renowned photographers who are an idiosyncratic mix of journalist, artist, and storyteller. Known for their wide range of approaches, Magnum Photos members produce documentary photography that encompasses art and photojournalism. The photo exhibition will tour in eight cities around the world; Hong Kong is one of the destinations. Around 190 pieces of works are being showcased.

Amongst the 16 international photographers, Chang Chien-Chi, the only Taiwanese Magnum member, attended the opening ceremony to elucidate the idea behind his works. Spending years in photography, Chang is known for manifesting the abstract concepts of alienation and connection between humans. “China Town”, for example, investigates the ties that bind one person to another drawing on his own deeply divided immigrant experience. His works are well-recognized by major international media including The Times, New York Times and National Geography. His collection of portraits presenting in this exhibition are photographed in New York’s Chinatown that depicts “home” of another kind through his lens.

Chang Chien-Chi was born in Taiwan in 1961. He received an M.S. from Indiana University, Bloomington, and a B. A. from Soochow University, Taipei. In his works, Chien-Chi Chang tackles the alienation and connection of human relationships. “The Chain,” a collection of portraits made in a mental asylum in Taiwan, caused a sensation when it was shown at La Biennale di Venezia (2001) and the Biennale de Sao Paolo (2002). The life-sized photographs of pairs of patients literally chained together resonate with Chang’s jaundiced look at the less visible bonds of marriage. The ties of family and of culture are also the themes of an ambitious project begun in 1992. For 20 years, Chang has photographed the bifurcated lives of Chinese immigrants in New York’s Chinatown, along with those of their wives and families back home in Fujian. Furthermore, he has focused on marital ties in two books—I do I do I do (2001), a collection of images capturing the alienated grooms and brides in Taiwan, and in Double Happiness (2005), a depiction of the business of selling brides in Vietnam.