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By Alison Bing
Special to AsianWeek
Don’t be fooled by his pensive, mild-mannered demeanor. Photographer Thomas Chang knows how to make a scene. Wherever his photographs appear, you’ll hear the same chorus: “Hey, look at this…”, “Is that…?” and the occasional “What the…?!”
So why all the ruckus? At first glance, Chang’s large color photographs seem perfectly calm: empty lap dance chairs at sex clubs, unoccupied rooms at fancy hotels and unattended souvenir stalls in China. Without people in them, these places appear to be reserved — in both senses of the word...
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