12/28/01, Kabul, Afghanistan, (Buzkashi)
Ink Jet Print

Chang W. Lee (Lee Jang Wook), BFA 1993
Chang W. Lee came to the United States from Pusan, Korea in 1986. He was the recipient of the department’s Rosenberg Travel Fellowship, with which he traveled to South Central Los Angeles to take photographs documenting positive relationships between Korean Americans and African Americans after the Los Angeles riots. The project was published in the L.A. Times Magazine in October 1993. He participated in the Eddie Adams Workshop and was hired as a staff photographer for the The New York Times. At the Times, Lee has covered the 1998 winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan; the 1999 Colombia earthquake; the 2000 summer Olympics in Sydney; the World Trade Center attacks; and the war in Afghanistan. His photographs from Afghanistan were featured in Photographerís Journal: Beautiful Lives at nytimes.com. He has been the Times photographer for the World Series with the Yankees and for the Hockey Stanley Cup (NHL). His photographs appear regularly on the front page of the Time, and he was part of both teams that won Pulitzer Prizes for Breaking News and Feature Photography in 2002.