Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao is a photographer born in Taiwan in 1977. He came to New York at 18 to study photography, and as a student he did an internship at Magnum.
Liao makes large composite panoramas. He stands in one place with a tripod for hours, makes hundreds of exposures as the light and the people change, and joins them by hand into one picture. He began with Habitat 7, a project along the 7 train in Queens, and went on to photograph all five boroughs.
His monograph New York was published by Aperture in 2014, and the Museum of the City of New York showed his work in the exhibition Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao’s New York: Assembled Realities. His work is in the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Brooklyn Museum.
