Join us for an evening with our own Charles Yang!

Charles Yang was a Neuroscientist who turned socio-cultural street photographer. His passion for photography began in his teen when his father gave him his old camera, along with a subscription of National Geographic magazine.

Always having a camera on his side, Charles has framed moments in life among diverse cultures during his international academic and biopharmaceutical scientific career paths over the last 5 decades while living and working globally, including Hong Kong, England, Canada, USA, and China.

In 2019, just before COVID hit, Charles took an early retirement to pursuit his other passion – Global Travel Street Photography. Not able to fulfill his plans during COVID, Charles used the lockdown period to sort through his extensive image archives to self-publish two photographic monographs, entitled: "Shanghai: the Pre-COVID Soul of The City (2020-2017)", "On Reading: From Analogue To Digital. And more recently, “Under The Moroccan Winter Sun”. These 3 books are now available to the public on the shelves of the Indianapolis Public Library.

Charles had held solo exhibition of his color and monochrome prints in Darkroom Revelation Gallery (CCIC), and joint print exhibitions with Lesley Ackman in Harrison Art Center, Garfield Park Art Center. Each of Charles’ photographs invites and lures viewers to immerse themselves in his thought-provoking moments frozen in time.

In his upcoming in-person talk at Photo Venture Camera Club, Charles is going to share his personal approaches to the Art and Craft of his Street Photography by illustrating with examples from some of his past and current work.