Chien Chi Chang: Chinatown ( New York and Fuzhou, 1992 2011)

In our latest photo essay made in collaboration with Magnum Photos, ChienChi Chang presents us with a collection of photographs taken between 19922011 illumintating the visible and invisible worlds of Chinatown, New York City. The men of Fuzhou, China leave their wives and families to work as dishwashers, cooks, carpenters and day laborers in New York City s Chinatown. Their little leisure time is spent in overcrowded dorm like apartments where they cook, eat, sleep and dream of prosperity and of