Lia Chang is an actor, photographer, greeting-card
designer, and award-winning multimedia journalist. Chang writes
and photographs her own culture column for Kyodo News and
is the arts and entertainment editor for AsianConnections.com, where
she covers style, the arts, and issues relating to Asian Americans,
children, and human rights. She is a Western Knight fellow at the
University of Southern California, a Scripps-Howard new media fellow
at Columbia University, and a Poynter Institute visual journalism
fellow.
She is at work on a new book, Asian Americans:
At Home in the Galaxy, a compilation of in-depth profiles and
behind-the-scenes photo essays of her contemporaries in the arts,
fashion, journalism, and space. Her work has been published in Vanity
Fair, the German Elle, The Paris Review, VIBE,
TV Guide, and The New York Times. Her portraits have
been used to illustrate numerous books, including Chinese Americans:
The Immigrant Experience.
Lia is a recipient of the Asian American Journalists
Association's 2001 National Award for New Media and the Organization
of Chinese Americans' 2000 Chinese American Journalist Award. Avenue
Magazine named her one of the "One Hundred Most Influential
Asian Americans."
Her photographs of New York's Chinatown in the
aftermath of September 11 are currently on display at the Museum
of the Chinese in the Americas (MoCA) in New York, and can be viewed
there through the winter of 2002.
Born and raised in San Francisco, Lia began modeling
in high school. She made her feature film debut in 1983 in The
Last Dragon, and her stage debut in 1986 as Liat in the national
tour of South Pacific, with Barbara Eden and Robert Goulet.
Her other film credits include Wolf, New Jack City,
A Kiss Before Dying, King of New York, and Big
Trouble in Little China. She currently plays Nurse Chang on
As the World Turns and One Life to Live.
Web site
http://liachanggallery.net
E-mail
lia@liachanggallery.net
Index
Kids
in color
Photographed by Lia Chang | Assembled
by Dustin Ross | Image | November
15, 2002
Nurturing the adults of tomorrow
Chinatown, the day after
Photographed by Lia Chang | ITF's Inside
Photography | October 2002
New York's Chinatown after September 11
Last updated: November 15, 2002
