Tsai Ting-bang
A long project made with his mother, Zhang-jie, as her trust grew and she began deciding how to perform for the camera.
Taiwan · photography · Photography, family images, long-term collaboration
Tsai Ting-bang's family photographs and document tables
Tsai Ting-bang · 2026 · Gallery H, Tainan Art Museum Building 1
Tsai Ting-bang's family photographs and document tables. A visitor bends toward the illuminated records with Zhang-jie's photographs behind her. Artwork: Tsai Ting-bang. Image: © 2026 Tainan Art Museum. Editorial use.
Editorial useView source ↗
Tsai Ting-bang has photographed his mother, Zhang-jie, over a long period. She built her own economic life as a businesswoman; as the project continued she increasingly trusted the camera and sometimes chose to perform for it, and those decisions stay in the pictures.
Sources
- Tainan Art Museum: Sticky Relationships: Filling // Fissures ↗ — Dates, gallery, participating artists, and the room photographs
- CNA: interview with Tsai Ting-bang and Zhang-jie ↗ — Zhang-jie's economic life and how the photographs were made
- Tainan Art Museum: family-image programme ↗ — The September 5 talk and Tsai Ting-bang's project
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