Albert Chong's creative work is based in the mediums of photography and installation art, with occasional forays into other media such as video and sculpture. His works have addressed issues of ethnic, national, political, and cultural identity. Other themes include spiritual, environmental, and sociopolitical conceptualizations. His work has very strong connections to African-American, Afro-Caribbean, Chinese Caribbean, Afro-Asian Jamaican, Asian-American, and Jamaican cultures. His creative work has sought to reveal the untold histories inherent in the stories, memories, mementoes, and, most importantly, in the familial photographs that are the evidence and residual legacy of these histories. The photomontage-like process that Chong employs to the creation of his still life assemblages uses old family photographs as the basis of the visual narrative structure of the image. These works have become Iconic in the field of contemporary art and contemporary art photography. My creative work is represented in the canon of art, specifically the history of photography, the history of African American Photography, the history of Photography in Colorado, the history of Jamaican Art, the history of Caribbean Art, the history of Black Art, and the history of Asian-American Art.
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photography, photographic processes, contemporary art photography, digital photographic processes, installation art, assemblage sculpture, environmental and social justice issues as expressed in various mediums of contemporary art
