Another photography post, unavoidable, considering I attended Magnum photographer, Chang Chien-Chi's talk at the national museum on Friday. For the uninformed, Chang Chien-Chi's is the only Asian in the elite Magnum Photo agency founded by legends Ropert Capa and Henri Cartier Bresson. 3 of his works, The Chain, Double Happiness, and China Town, some 130 photographs are now on exhibition at the national museum. Don't miss this one!

For the talk, I went with Cheeleong, and although I was troubled before the talk began( I thought I had lost my wallet together with all the important documents; it has since been recovered), I quickly forgot all about, with hindsight, my little problem, once we took our seats to await the great man. He was eccentric, but very witty. He started off talking about his work, but then his train of thought would wander, and it became very obvious that he hadn't come with any clear theme or message, rather he just spoke on whatever came to his mind as he looked at the stimulus of a slide show, probably prepared for him by the museum. But it was enlightening enough, as he talked about how he prefers one camera, one lens, thats all you need, keep it simple.


Keep it simple. Great advice.