About

Welcome to my site!

My name is Rich Tang and I will be your host for the duration of your stay. Martini?? Piece of chocolate?? Finger sandwich?? No?? Moving on then….

In here, you'll find a selection of my photographs, my inner thoughts, my outer thoughts, my rants, raves, and general ramblings. A little about the slightly awkward guy pictured above (that’s me, by the way)… I remember being a young boy running around, pretending my toy "Shazzam" View Finder was a camera, and clicking away at anything and everything. In the fifth grade, I got my first point-and-shoot camera. It was a brick of a thing that took quite a beating as I would take it just about everywhere with me. Rolls and rolls of film go by. I started borrowing my dad's old Canon F1 manual SLR. Taught myself light balance and metering. More rolls of film go by. As I entered high school, my dad thought it was time for both of us to upgrade our cameras. It was then I got my very own SLR camera, the Canon Elan. I took that EVERYWHERE. That is until I lost it. Ok... I didn't actually lose it. I left it in an NYC cab one day - Dad was not happy. Sooo...  once again I borrowed his camera - the Canon A2E. It was great! Even more rolls of film go by. During this time, I also discovered acting and theater. I began studying human emotions, actions, and interactions. The way people connect to one another. And not just to each other but to everything around them. I took my lessons in theater along with my lessons in photography and discovered new ways of seeing. I wanted to capture those moments in time that told a story. Images that not only made people think but talk and react. To provoke emotion just as lines do on stage.

Then came digital photography. RE-WRITABLE MEMORY!!! Well… 3 Canon digital SLRs, a brief dalliance with a Sony a6000, several digital Fujifilm mirrorless cameras, dozens of memory cards, countless camera bags, and thousands of gigabytes later I'm still clicking away at anything and everything.